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This study examines the oral genre of the tall tale as manipulated and embellished in the writing career of Mark Twain. Offering insight into the works of a major American author, the book also sheds light on an important American comic tradition.

Tall tales --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Oral tradition --- Fiction --- Fiction writing --- Metafiction --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Bragging tales --- Lying tales --- Tales, Tall --- Tall talk --- Windies (Tales) --- Tales --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Wit and humor --- History and criticism. --- History --- Technique. --- Twain, Mark, --- Twain, Mark --- Tvėn, Mark --- Tuėĭn, Mark --- Tuwayn, Mārk --- Twayn, Mārk --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo --- Tven, M. --- Touen, Makū --- Twain, Marek --- Make Tuwen --- Tuwen, Make --- Make Teviin --- Твен, Марк --- Touain, Mark --- טבןַ, מרק, --- טוויין, מארק, --- טוויין, מרק, --- טווין, מארק, --- טווין, מרק, --- טווען, מארק, --- טוין, מרק, --- טװען, מארק, --- טװײן, מארק, --- 馬克吐温, --- Tuvāyn, Mārk --- Tvāyn, Mārk --- تواين، مارک --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius --- Conte, Louis de --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)