书名：Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain马克吐温短篇故事集
作者：Mark Twain马克·吐温
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：1984
语种：英文
ISBN：9780553211955
商品尺寸：10.6 x 3.7 x 17.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：848 （以实物为准）

Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain《马克吐温短篇故事集》是世界知名文学大师马克•吐温的精选合集，收录了The Notorious Jumping Frog of CalaverasCounty《卡拉维拉斯郡有名的跳蛙》、The Story of the Bad Little Boy《坏孩子的故事》等脍炙人口的短篇佳作，本书适合有一定英文水平的美国文学、美式英语爱好者阅读。
推荐理由：
1. 内容较为全面，从成名作到传世名篇都有收录；
2. 独特的幽默讽刺风格加上夸张的写作手法使得文章趣味十足；
3. 内容无删减，用词灵活，句式丰富，对学习美语有较大帮助。
For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. 

Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of—in the words of H. L. Mencken—“the father of our national literature.” 

Introduction
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Story of the Bad Little Boy
Cannibalism in the Cars
A Day at Niagara
Legend of the Capitoline Venus
Journalism in Tennessee
A Curious Dream
The Facts in the Great Beef Contract
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
A Medieval Romance
My Watch
Political Economy
Science vs. Luck
The Story of the Good Little Boy
Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral
The Story of the Old Ram
Tom Quartz
A Trial
The Trials of Simon Erickson
A True Story
Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Group
Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls
The Canyasser’s Tale
The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton
……
A Dog’s Tale
The $30000 Bequest
A Horse’s Tale
Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven
A Fable
The Mysterious Stranger

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. He gained national attention as a humorist in 1865 with the publication of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” but was acknowledged as a great writer by the literary establishment with The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1885). In 1880, Twain began promoting and financing the ill-fated Paige typesetter, an invention designed to make the printing process fully automatic. At the height of his naively optimistic involvement in the technological “wonder” that nearly drove him to bankruptcy, he published his satire, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889). Plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Mark Twain spent the last years of his life in gloom and exasperation, writing fables about “the damned human race.”
马克•吐温，19世纪后期美国现实主义文学的杰出代表，被称为美国文学史上极知名人士之一，被推崇为“美国文坛巨子”，擅长写具有讽刺意味小说。其交友甚是广泛，迪士尼、魏伟德、尼古拉•特斯拉、海伦•凯勒、亨利•罗杰诸君，皆为其友。他被誉为文学史上的林肯。海伦•凯勒曾言：“我喜欢马克•吐温——谁会不喜欢他呢？即使是上帝，亦会钟爱他，赋予其智慧，并于其心灵里绘画出一道爱与信仰的彩虹。”威廉•福克纳称他为“第一位真正的美国作家，我们都是继承他而来”。他是美国乡土文学的集大成者，海明威曾经说过“一切当代美国文学都起源于马克•吐温一本叫《哈克贝里•费恩历险记》的书”。他于1910年4月21日去世，享年七十五岁，安葬于纽约州艾玛拉。

THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY
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. I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth; that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me to death with some exasperating reminiscence of him as long and as tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it succeeded.
I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp of Angel’s, and I noticed that he was fat and baldheaded, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. He roused up, and gave me good day. I told him that a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood named Leonidas W. Smiley—Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of Angel’s Camp. I added that if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him.