A collection of 23 of Twain's funniest stories and essays, ranging from tongue in cheek to the fantastic. This collection includes:

"Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)

"The Story of the Old Ram" (Roughing It, 1872)

"Buck Fanshaw�s Funeral" (Roughing It, 1872)

"Tom Quartz" (Roughing It, 1872)

"What Stumped the Bluejays" (1880)

"Journalism in Tennessee" (1869)

"How I Edited an Agricultural Paper" (1870)

"The Facts in the Great Beef Contract" (1870)

"The Great Landslide Case" (1870)

"The Canvasser's Tale" (1845)

"The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut" (1876)

"Cannibalism in the Cars" (1868)

"My Watch" (1903)

"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895)

"Political Economy" (1870)

"The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm" (1882)

"The Art of Authorship" (1890)

"A Genuine Mexican Plug" (Roughing It, 1872)

"Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup" (1875)

"First Interview with Artemus Ward" (1875)

"Punch, Brothers, Punch" (1876)

"To the California Pioneers" (1869)

"An Author's Soldiering" (1887)