Special features: Includes overview of his major works (4 min.).
Contents:
Major works: Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County (1865) -- Tom Sawyer (1876) -- Letters from the Sandwich Islands (1866) -- Tom Sawyer detective & other stories (1896) -- Huckleberry Finn (1884) -- Innocents abroad (1869) -- Roughing it (1872) -- A tramp abroad (1880) -- Pudd'n Head Wilson (1894) -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court (1889) -- Joan of Arc (1896) -- Tom Sawyer abroad (1894) -- The prince and the pauper (1881) -- Life of the Mississippi (1883).
Summary:
Twain as a humorist was master of the techniques of exaggeration. Sensitive to the sound of language, he introduced colloquial speech into American fiction.
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