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    A Study Guide for Samuel Langhorne Clemens's "The Invalid's Story"
    A Study Guide for Samuel Langhorne Clemens's "The Invalid's Story"
    A Study Guide for Samuel Langhorne Clemens's "The Invalid's Story"
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    A Study Guide for Samuel Langhorne Clemens's "The Invalid's Story"

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    A Study Guide for Samuel Langhorne Clemens's "The Invalid's Story," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535837583
    A Study Guide for Samuel Langhorne Clemens's "The Invalid's Story"

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      The Invalid’s Story

      Mark Twain

      1882

      Introduction

      The Invalid’s Story, Mark Twain’s raucous story about a case of mistaken identities that eventually kills a man, is considered by many critics to have no literary value. Still, even though some critics have panned the story, it is often reproduced in collections of Twain’s stories and others have noted that it is a good example of the frontier-style humor for which Twain was known. The story details the unfortunate misadventures of two men on a train who mistake a gunbox and a piece of rotting cheese for a smelly corpse in a coffin. The two men try many tactics in an attempt to fight the smell of the corpse, but in the end, all of their efforts are fruitless. The themes range from mortality and the proper behavior towards the dead, to the power of imagination to overcome reason.

      It is believed that Twain wrote the story in the 1870s, about a decade after he began what would be an illustrious career. During this time, America’s railroads were experiencing their Golden Age, as people relied mainly on trains for both travel and the transportation of everything from coffins to food products. First published in The Stolen White Elephant, Etc. in London in 1882, the story can be found in The Signet Classic Book Of Mark Twain’s Short Stories, published in 1985.

      Author Biography

      Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in the village of Florida, Missouri. Although his early life was spent in Missouri, Clemens left home as a young man and traveled around the United States, often picking up temporary printing jobs or other odd jobs to fund his adventures.

      Travel remained a big part of Clemens’s life and he experienced many of the different types of travel available to people in the nineteenth century. From working as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, Clemens moved out west, traveling by stagecoach. It was in the west that he began to publish his own writing, including his first book, a collection of humorous tales, in 1867. In fact, Clemens’s frontier-style humor became a trademark in many of his future publications. The Invalid’s Story—which is believed to have been written in

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