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How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays

by Mark Twain

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How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays (1897) is a public domain work.

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A pause, a wandering detail and a carefully buried punch line become tools of the storyteller in Mark Twain's 1897 collection. The opening essay distinguishes humorous, comic and witty stories, arguing that a humorous tale owes its effect to the manner of delivery. Twain draws on performers such as Artemus Ward and James Whitcomb Riley to show how a grave expression or an apparently misplaced remark can shape an audience's response.

The collection also moves into personal anecdotes and speculation about thoughts passing between minds. In one passage, a trolley ride with Joseph H. Twichell prompts an account of meeting an army lieutenant in Milan and hearing of his financial trouble at Bellagio. These shifts between practical advice and remembered conversation make the book useful for readers interested in spoken storytelling, comic timing and Twain's handling of everyday encounters.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".

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