Taming the Bicycle (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
And Other Essays, Stories, and Sketches
Contributors
By Mark Twain
Edited by Eric Carl Link
Introduction by Eric Carl Link
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- On Sale
- Mar 13, 2012
- Page Count
- 304 pages
- Publisher
- BookAnnex
- ISBN-13
- 9781411466968
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
American life comes under the scrutiny of Mark Twain’s wit in this delightful collection of short stories. Here, he comments on politics, education, the media, religion, and literature. The true subject of Twain’s satire and burlesque is that strangest of all animals, the human being. In his novels, travel narratives, stories, essays, and sketches, Twain exposes such a variety of human foibles that one is left either laughing at the folly of human enterprise, blushing with shame at human behavior, or cursing the gods that would create such a silly animal. Twain does all three, often at the same time.
