This collection unites Twains most accomplished short works, including The Mysterious Stranger, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and seven other stories. Revised reissue. nThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County nThe Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut nThe Stolen White Elephant nLuck nThe 1,000,000 Bank-Note nThe Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg nThe Five Boons of Life nWas It Heaven? Or Hell? nThe Mysterious Stranger nThe Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories unites nine of master American humorist Mark Twains most accomplished works. From tall tales of con mens tricks, such as the classic that brought him instant fame, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, to a man with no money (other than a 1,000,000 banknote that no one can cash), to an expos of greed and hypocrisy in perhaps his greatest short story, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Twain showcases his notorious humor--skewering policemen, clergymen, politicians, bankers, and others--and displays his changing attitude toward human nature. The finale is the novella The Mysterious Stranger, a rarity for Mark Twain in which he turns his sardonic, freewheeling wit on eternal evil in a distant time and place--and conjures a memorable, tormenting conclusion.n