How to tell a story, and other essays
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New York : Harpers, c1899.
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vi, [5]-333 pages, [3] leaves of plates : port., plates ; 19 cm.
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"How to Tell a Story and Other Essays" is a collection of essays on various subjects by America's most famous satirist, Mark Twain. Contained in this volume you will find the following essays: How to Tell a Story, In Defense of Harriet Shelley, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, Travelling With a Reformer, Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story, Mental Telegraphy Again, What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us, A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget, The Invalid's Story, The Captain's Story, Stirring Times in Austria, Concerning the Jews, From the 'London Times' of 1904, and At the Appetite-Cure.
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Twain, M., & Moffett, S. E. 1. (1899). How to tell a story, and other essays. New York, Harpers.

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 and Samuel E. 1860-1908. Moffett. 1899. How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays. New York, Harpers.

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 and Samuel E. 1860-1908. Moffett, How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays. New York, Harpers, 1899.

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Twain, Mark and Samuel E. 1860-1908 Moffett. How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays. New York, Harpers, 1899.

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