American Drolleries'I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.' Mark Twain In these extraordinary stories, Mark Twain takes us from the sleepy banks of the Mississippi, through frontier towns, and across the deserted gold plains of California. We encounter his countryfolk in all their bizarre variety: a cannibalistic ex senator, a compulsive gambler, phoney travelling salesmen, and a team of bumbling detectives. The