American writer Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, has given us some literary gems with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and his travel adventures in 19th-century Europe and to Australia and New Zealand. In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Twain discusses the telling of stories, rather than providing more stories. Humor, Twain says, is American while comic is English and witty is French. He follows this typically brilliant essay with examples of storytelling and some intriguing experiences of "mental telegraphy".
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Just a small town boy, trying to make it in the big city.
"Great Stuff!!"
Yes! Timeless and counter-intuitive wisdom from an American Treasure.
The title essay was very interesting. I had never considered joke telling in this way.
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