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Twain's Humor

By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Thomas Becker
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A collection of 23 of Twain's funniest stories and essays, ranging from tongue in cheek to the fantastic. This collection includes:
  • "Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
  • "The Story of the Old Ram" (Roughing It, 1872)
  • "Buck Fanshaw�s Funeral" (Roughing It, 1872)
  • "Tom Quartz" (Roughing It, 1872)
  • "What Stumped the Bluejays" (1880)
  • "Journalism in Tennessee" (1869)
  • "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper" (1870)
  • "The Facts in the Great Beef Contract" (1870)
  • "The Great Landslide Case" (1870)
  • "The Canvasser's Tale" (1845)
  • "The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut" (1876)
  • "Cannibalism in the Cars" (1868)
  • "My Watch" (1903)
  • "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895)
  • "Political Economy" (1870)
  • "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm" (1882)
  • "The Art of Authorship" (1890)
  • "A Genuine Mexican Plug" (Roughing It, 1872)
  • "Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup" (1875)
  • "First Interview with Artemus Ward" (1875)
  • "Punch, Brothers, Punch" (1876)
  • "To the California Pioneers" (1869)
  • "An Author's Soldiering" (1887)
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    Critic reviews

    "Thomas Becker's delivery suggests the wry humor one imagines the author himself would use in reading them." (Booklist)
    "This recording's success is a result of Becker's dramatic reading ability, which is nicely understated yet totally effective and appropriate." (School Library Journal)
    "Possibly the best Twain on the market." (The Society for Performance Literature)

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