A Million Dollars: A Collection of Short Stories by Mark Twain

Author: Mark Twain (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Mark Twain (1835–1910) was an American writer whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. "Mark Twain" was his pen name, originally a term used by Mississippi River boat pilots to indicate the depth of water in a channel. Throughout his life, Mark Twain wrote a vast amount of work, covering genres such as novels, plays, essays, and poetry. In terms of content, his works criticized unreasonable phenomena or the ugliness of human nature, expressing the strong sense of justice and concern for ordinary people of this writer who had worked as a typesetter and a river pilot. In terms of style, both experts and general readers agree that humor and satire are his distinctive writing traits. This collection of short and medium-length stories includes thirteen of the author's novels, arranged in the order of their original publication years. These stories are either widely known (such as The Million Pound Bank Note and Running for Governor) or less familiar to the public (such as The Friend of Golsmith Again Aboard and The Cannibal on the Train), but all are vividly interesting and thought-provoking.