Mark Twain is a very inconsistent author to me. At times, he is brilliant, as I love 3 of his novels. Other times, his work just doesn't resonate with me. Case in point: I've now read the short story "The Celebrated (Notorious) Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country" three times and still couldn't fully recap the story.

The ones in this collection I really enjoyed were: The Stolen White Elephant, A Ghost Story, The Diary of Adam and Eve (absolutely brilliant!), The £$1,000,000 Bank-Note, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Two Little Tales, and A Horse's Tale.

None of the rest were bad, but were just forgettable.

I've been reading a library copy. This is a book worth owning. I will enjoy re-reading quite a few of these stories.

I got this book to find only one story A Terrible, Awful Medieval Romance and I found it on page 50 titled A Medieval Romance. I ended up reading 25 stories until my check out time ended and decided I had read enough Mark Twain for a while.

So, I only read 148 out of its 676 pages and I liked most of them, so my review can not be complete but it is definite that the riddle mystery on page 50 should be read. Maybe you might be the first to figure out a solution to it.

What a range--from fun adventure to humorous, gently satirical stories, to bitingly bitter pieces from a "pen warmed up in hell" ! These stories really show Twain in all of his moods, and are really fun reading.

How much Mark Twain is too much? Eight hundred and fourteen pages is not too much. I have decided that of Satan-meddling-with-the-world-stories, I prefer "The Mysterious Stranger" to _The Master and Margarita_.

Published in 1985, 'Mark Twain's Short Stories' is a collection of 63 short stories and one essay. The stories are arranged in order of the year of publication, starting in 1865 and ending in 1909. The tone of the stories changes over the years - the earliest stories are humorous in the main, whilst the later stories grow increasingly melancholy. The longer stories wander a bit, and probably should have been edited down to a more appropriate length. One or two of the longer stories just make no sense at all - either that or they were too boring to keep my attention span up. All in all, it was worth the read, as the bulk of the tales are superb.

While Twain might be best known for his books, the short stories are where he really shines. Th variety and humor makes this a great read.

Mark Twain is a cranky old racist. He’s observant of people’s behavior, but he really thinks the worst of humanity. And that gets old. There were some gems that I hadn’t heard of before, but most were pretty boring.

Loved A Day At Niagra. Great book!

টম-হাক সেই ছোটবেলার পড়া, মার্ক টোয়েনের পাড়ভক্ত না হলেও ঐ সিরিজে উনার লেখনী চমৎকার উপভোগ করেছিলাম।
এই বইটা হাতে নিয়ে মোটামুটিরকম হতাশ হয়েছি বলা যায়।গল্পের আগাগোড়ায় কেমন যেন গা-ছাড়া ভাব, কোথায় যেন কী একটা নেই!

I have loved Mark Twains stories for a long as I can remember. I absolutely love is collection. There's only one story that I couldn't really get into and that's Mysterious Stranger. I highly recommend buying two copies one for yourself to read over and over and another one to loan out. I've convinced many people who told me they didn't like Twain because of the stories they had to read in school to give him another try by having them read The Diary of Adam and Eve, the Story of the Good Little Boy, The Story of the Bad Little Boy, or other such writings to give Twain another try & they have all thanked me for it.

Now these are stories to live by. Morality and humor. My type of guy.