"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" A collection of Twain's best-loved and classic stories, including: * The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)* The Story of the Old Ram (from Roughing It, 1872)* Buck Fanshaw's Funeral (from Roughing It, 1872)* Tom Quartz ...
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"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" A collection of Twain's best-loved and classic stories, including: * The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)* The Story of the Old Ram (from Roughing It, 1872)* Buck Fanshaw's Funeral (from Roughing It, 1872)* Tom Quartz (from 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 Facts Concerning he Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (1876)* Cannibalism in the Cars (1868)* My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale (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 (from Roughing It, 1872)* Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup (1875)* First Interview with Artemus Ward (1875)* Punch, Brothers, Punch (1876)* Elmira, October 11, 1869: To the California Pioneers (1869)* An Author's Soldiering (1887)"
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