The Collected Shorter Works of Mark Twain

For the first time in a collector’s boxed set, the most comprehensive edition ever published of Mark Twain’s short writings – the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America’s greatest humorist.

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand,” Mark Twain once wrote. A master of deadpan hilarity, a storyteller who fashioned an exuberant style rooted in his western origins, and an enemy of injustice who used scathing invec…