Collected Nonfiction Volume 2 av Mark Twain

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<p>Twain''s playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling gifts are on full display as he regales readers with his real-life adventures, some of them so outrageous they cannot be true - or can they? <br><br>As Richard Russo says in his fascinating introduction, Twain was an ''inspired, indeed, unparalleled, bullshitter'' who himself cheerfully relates how as a cub reporter out West he had elevated a routine Indian attack on a wagon full of immigrants to a battle that ''to this day has no parallel in history'' - once he knew he could get away with it.<br><br>There is drama as well as comedy in his account of life on the Mississippi, and great sadness too when his younger brother Henry is killed in a steamboat explosion - all the more poignant for the restraint with which he describes it. In The Innocents Abroad Twain the gleeful iconoclast is a passenger on a cruise ship to Europe and the Holy Land, poking fun at European snobbery and pretension and refusing to be overawed by all that