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    The Short Story Hour - Volume 5
    The Short Story Hour - Volume 5
    The Short Story Hour - Volume 5
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    The Short Story Hour - Volume 5

    By Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott and Edward Lear

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    This comes to you courtesy of Miniature Masterpieces who have an excellent range of quality short stories from the masters of the craft. Do search for Miniature Masterpieces at any digital store for further information.

    This hour opens with Mark Twain and How to Write a Story. Good words indeed from the master. After that Louisa May Alcott entertains us with Obtaining Supplies. And to wrap it up the wonderfully weird Edward Lear and the Lake Pipple Popple.

    How to Tell a Story by Mark Twain

    Obtaining Supplies by Louisa May Alcott

    The Lake Pipple Popple by Edward Lear

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMiniature Masterpieces
    Release dateJan 11, 2018
    ISBN9781787377127
    The Short Story Hour - Volume 5
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature of American fiction, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died in 1910.

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      The Short Story Hour - Volume 5 - Mark Twain

      The Short Story Hour. Volume 5

      This comes to you courtesy of Miniature Masterpieces who have a wide and excellent range of quality short stories from the masters of this genre.  Do search for Miniature Masterpieces at any digital store for further information. 

      This audiobook is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title, same words. Perhaps a different experience but with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device. Start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.  This is, and these are, Miniature Masterpieces. Join us for the journey.

      How to Tell a Story by Mark Twain

      The Humorous Story an American Development.  Its Difference from Comic and Witty Stories.

      I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I can only claim to know how a story ought to be told, for I have been almost daily in the company of the most expert story-tellers for many years.

      There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind―the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.

      The humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic and witty stories must be brief and end with a point. The humorous story bubbles gently along, the others burst.

      The humorous story is strictly a work of art―high and delicate art―and only an artist can tell it; but no art is necessary in telling the comic and the witty story; anybody can do it. The art of telling a humorous story―understand, I mean by word of mouth, not print―was created in America, and has remained at home.

      The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it; but the teller of the comic story tells you beforehand that it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard, then tells it with eager delight, and is the first person to laugh when he gets through. And sometimes, if he has had good success, he is

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