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Mark Twain
Our Price$2.50New!(Table of Contents)
Availability: In Stock
Format: Book
Grade Level: 6 and Up (ages 11 and up)
ISBN: 0486292797
Page Count: 80
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
Eight entertaining tales, including the celebrated classic "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses," Twain's hilarious savaging of that author's style; as well as "Journalism in Tennessee," "About Barbers," "The Stolen White Elephant," "A Literary Nightmare," "How to Tell a Story," more.

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