arensb's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
3.5
A few short stories by Mark Twain. Not bad, but not his best work, either.
elizabethlk's review against another edition
3.0
As a whole, this made for a nice time filler. Nothing blew me away but it had its charm.
There were some pleasant and unpleasant stories, mostly filled with Mark Twain's signature wit. I found the Golden Arm highly unpleasant, but otherwise I have no major complaints
I would recommend it for anyone looking to read some Twain..
There were some pleasant and unpleasant stories, mostly filled with Mark Twain's signature wit. I found the Golden Arm highly unpleasant, but otherwise I have no major complaints
I would recommend it for anyone looking to read some Twain..
elizabethlk's review against another edition
3.0
As a whole, this made for a nice time filler. Nothing blew me away but it had its charm.
There were some pleasant and unpleasant stories, mostly filled with Mark Twain's signature wit. I found the Golden Arm highly unpleasant, but otherwise I have no major complaints
I would recommend it for anyone looking to read some Twain..
There were some pleasant and unpleasant stories, mostly filled with Mark Twain's signature wit. I found the Golden Arm highly unpleasant, but otherwise I have no major complaints
I would recommend it for anyone looking to read some Twain..
jhukarishma's review against another edition
2.0
This may have been better if I had read it as a book. Something about the formatting of the Kindle edition makes it so that all the essays run together, and you want them to make sense as a whole, which they don't do.
elizabethlk's review
3.0
As a whole, this made for a nice time filler. Nothing blew me away but it had its charm.
There were some pleasant and unpleasant stories, mostly filled with Mark Twain's signature wit. I found the Golden Arm highly unpleasant, but otherwise I have no major complaints
I would recommend it for anyone looking to read some Twain..
There were some pleasant and unpleasant stories, mostly filled with Mark Twain's signature wit. I found the Golden Arm highly unpleasant, but otherwise I have no major complaints
I would recommend it for anyone looking to read some Twain..
georgehunter's review
1.0
Not at all what I was expecting. I suppose I took the title a little too literally. But even that first essay wasn't so much of an essay as a story. These arent essays, they are stories. There is no exposition of Twain's ideas about writing. This is not his version of Orwell's Politics and the English Language, or even his Why I Write. If I was looking for some Of Twains short stories then this might have better fit the bill - especially if the book were so renamed.
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