For the first time in a collector's boxed set, the most comprehensive edition ever published of Mark Twain's short writings -- the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist.
``Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand,`` Mark Twain once wrote.
A master of deadpan hilarity, a storyteller who fashioned an exuberant style rooted in his western origins, and an enemy of injustice who used scathing i.
Library Of America The collected shorter works of mark twain, hardcover/mark twain
