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Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skillfully adapted, extended, or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, to the parodic perfection of An Awful-Terrible Medieval Romance, to the satirical delights of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It; from the warm nostalgia of Early Days to the bitter, brooding tone of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg to the anti-imperial vehemence of To the Person Sitting in the Darkness and the poignant grief expressed in Death of Jean, Twain emerges in this volume in many guises, all touched by genius.
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