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yes, I thought about Jim Smiley too, as iconic.

The other one's mentioned, or some of them like "True Story": are they even short stories?

I also like to teach things like "Carnival of Crime," "Barnum's First Speech," or "Little Bessie." (more genre issues)




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From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Matthew Seybold <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [External] Re: Most "Iconic" MT short story??

"Iconic" has to be "Jim Smiley & His Jumping Frog," right?

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather teach "Hadleyburg" or "Cannibalism in the
Cars" or the "Boy" stories or "A True Story" or "Eve's Diary," or any
number of other things, but I feel like the resilient popularity of
"Jumping Frog" is the reason Twain has to be on such a list.

- MS

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:49 AM Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Sadly this author overlooked our beloved hero, but she also forgot about
> Hawthorne ("Young Goodman Brown"); Kurt Vonnegut ("Harrison Bergeron"); and
> others I'm sure/  But my question" which MT short story should be on this
> list? My answer is revealed in the comments at the bottom...
>
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> >
> Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890) I will leave it
> to Kurt Vonnegut, who famously wrote, “I consider anybody a twerp who
> hasn’t read the greatest American short story, which is “Occurrence at Owl
> Creek Bridge,” by Ambrose https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://Bierce.It__;!!K543PA!ez2Pidecq9MIeWM5YZPagovW_wVsVFpSiyqrLsggLnKCFoCWLz9KYVcxMdXHiw$  isn’t remotely political. It is a
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> Ellington or the ...
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> Dr. Hal Bush
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> Director of the Undergraduate Program
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> Saint Louis University
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