by Mark Twain · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470801273
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«El elefante blanco robado» is a book of humorous stories by Mark Twain, published by Moby Dick in paperback (154 pages, in Spanish).
The king of Siam sends a sacred white elephant to the queen of England; during a stopover in New York, the animal disappears. The investigation falls to the chief of detectives, a man who proclaims himself a genius but is corrupt and incompetent, and the search leads to a series of mix-ups. The volume includes three other stories by Mark Twain.
Complete edition within the Biblioteca de Bolsillo Junior collection. The original story, The Stolen White Elephant, was published in 1882.
For readers who appreciate Mark Twain's satirical humor and absurd detective stories.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's 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". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
