The Petrified Man

'The Petrified Man'' - is a work by American writer Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), from whose creative work «all modern American literature comes from». In this short story (1870) the author describes two cases from his life, using the elements of fantasy. He started his career from the humorous satirical songs and finished with full of irony essays of human tempers, satirical pamphlets of social and p...