Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. The stories also show how Twain earned his place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a vigorous desire for...

Here are 18 new tales of Lake Wobegon, hand-picked from live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Never before collected, these expertly crafted stories are full of gentle humor, genuine emotion, and insights into family, community, faith, and hope. -- Audio Editions.