How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (March 9, 1897)^[1] is a series of essays by Mark Twain. All except one of the essays were published previously in magazines. The essays included are the following:

"How to Tell a Story" (originally published October 3, 1895).
"In Defence of Harriet Shelley" (August 1894).
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" (July 1895).
"Travelling with a Reformer" (16 December 1893).
"Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story" (April 1894).
"Mental Telegraphy Again" (September 1895).
"What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" (January 1895).
"A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget" (first published in this book).

References

^ Merle De Vore Johnson (1910). A Bibliography of the Work of Mark Twain. Harper & Brothers. p. 78.

External links

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays at Project Gutenberg
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Mark Twain (1996). How to Tell a Story and Other Essays. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-510149-9.

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[1] Merle De Vore Johnson (1910). A Bibliography of the Work of Mark Twain. Harper & Brothers. p. 78.

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