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Nine tales showcase Twain's wit as he skewers greed and ypocrisy-and makes a memorable, tormenting statement on evil.

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IN compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result.

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This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)

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  1. Mark Twain (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Edmund Reiss (Introduction)
  2. Howard Mittelmark (Afterword)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Signet Classics
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1916
ISBN: 0451529243
Page Count: 272

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