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Cannibalism in the Cars: And Other Humorous Sketches (Prion Humour Classics)
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Cannibalism in the Cars: And Other Humorous Sketches (Prion Humour Classics)
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by Mark Twain
Sales Rank : 1951136
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Hardcover: 241 pages
Publisher: Prion March 1, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853753696
ISBN-13: 978-1853753695
Product Dimensions:
7.3 x 4.9 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces
From Library Journal
This collection of Twain's great humor sketches has come and gone over the years. "Prion Humour Classics" here resurrects it again in a sweet little hardcover edition with a new introduction by Roy Blount Jr. Along with the title piece, this also contains 33 others, such as "Curing a Cold," "Science vs. Luck," and "Political Economy."
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
Mark Twain is the rambunctious father of all cynics. His wry observations and biting jibes made him the first modern humorist. His sardonic sketches on everything from politicians, preachers, journalists, barbers, nagging wives, devious children, and gullible low-lifes are as hilarious and true today as they were when Twain hammered them out to make a name for himself on the frontier newspapers in the 1870s. Though humor saturates all his best-loved work, it is in the freewheeling exuberance of these early sketches and yarns that his love of pranks, hoaxes, yarns, slapstick, and parodies is shown to best effect. Throughout these tales, the violence, cruelty, and plum stupidity of human nature is woven into comic gold as he makes us roar with laughter at our own idiotic self-deception and vain conceit.
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