Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls

by Mark Twain

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Genres: Classics

48 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2000

About the author

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

Reviews

[Jess the Shelf-Declared Bibliophile · Rating 1 out of 5]

This one was a swing and a miss for me. Sadly. It was a bit all over the place, and creating so many unique insect/creature characters didn’t feel successful, but instead just jumbled.

[Forked Radish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant satire! Science is mere learned fables! "Science needed only a spoonful of supposition to build a mountain of demonstrated fact out of..." The Obscene Tumblebug