How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

First edition (publ. Harper & Brothers)

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (March 9, 1897) is a series of essays by Mark Twain. All except one of the essays were published previously in magazines. The essays included are the following:

• "How to Tell a Story" (originally published October 3, 1895).
• "In Defence of Harriet Shelley" (August 1894).
• "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" (July 1895).
• "Travelling with a Reformer" (16 December 1893).
• "Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story" (April 1894).
• "Mental Telegraphy Again" (September 1895).
• "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" (January 1895).
• "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget" (first published in this book).

External links

• How to Tell a Story and Other Essays at Project Gutenberg
• How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays public domain audiobook at LibriVox
• Mark Twain (1996). How to Tell a Story and Other Essays. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-510149-9.