馬克·吐溫的短篇小說猶如一顆顆璀璨的明珠，折射出他那個時代美國人民豐富的精神世界以及他們的物質生活的風貌。《馬克·吐溫短篇小說選》收錄了他的數十篇短篇小說，有的文章諷刺宗教的偽善和人們價值觀的顛倒，有的探討社會發展和環境保護，有的探討人類和動物的關繫，當然還有以人類*初無知的眼光思考混沌之初的世界。

The □1, 000,000 Bank-Note
Playing Courier
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Story of the Bad Little Boy
Journalism in Tennessee
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
The Facts in the Great Beef Contract
The Story of the Good Little Boy
Experience of the McWilliamses with
Membranous Croup
My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale
A Curious Dream: Containing a Moral
The Invalid's Story
A Curious Experience
The Californian's Tale
Is He Living or Is He Dead?
A Dog's Tale
The $30,000 Bequest
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit
to Heaven
Legend of the Capitoline Venus
Edward Mills and George Benton= A Tale
The Stolen White Elephant
A Fable
Some Learned FabJes For Good Old Boys
And Gifts
The Man that corrupted Hadleyburg
Mrs, McWilliams and the Lightning
The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
A Ghost Story
A Medieval Romance