How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897) is one of Mark Twain's most popular collections of essays. Containing advice on how to tell a story, with examples, criticism of a popular biography and some poorly written fiction, personal experience of the attempted reformation of public rights, the history and several versions of a story about a jumping frog, instances of telepathy, and more literary criticism, Twain's keen wit, caustic humor and incisive satire are never more strongly displayed.
The contents of this English Rose edition are from the original edition: How to Tell a Story, In Defence of Harriet Shelley, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, Travelling with a Reformer, The Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story, Mental Telegraphy Again, What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us and A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget.
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