Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous—"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"—& ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects seven of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables & satires by fourteen of his contemporaries, including Artemus Ward, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes & William Dean Howells.
