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Book Title: MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY
Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
Book Description:
N ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Dear William Dean Howells, Joseph Hopkins Twichell, Joseph T. Goodman,
and other old friends of Mark Twain:
I cannot let these volumes go to press without some grateful word to you
who have helped me during the six years and more that have gone to their
making.
First, I want to confess how I haveMore... | |
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Book Title: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
Chapter 1
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister - Mrs. Joe Gargery,More... | |
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Book Title: A TRAMP ABROAD
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
CHAPTER I
[The Knighted Knave of Bergen]
One day it occurred to me that it had been many years
since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man
adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe
on foot. After much thought, I decided that I was
a person fitted to furnish to mankind this spectacle.
So IMore... | |
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Book Title: In Defence of Harriet Shelley
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
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I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them
to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of
ordinary literature during six years when I might have been living on the
fat diet spread for the righteous in Professor Dowden's Life of Shelley,
if I had been justly dealtMore... | |
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Book Title: Essays on Paul Bourget
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US
He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston they ask, How much
does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philadelphia, Who
were his parents? And when an alien observer turns his telescope upon
us--advertisedly in our own special interest--a natural apprehension
moves us toMore... | |
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Book Title: Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Prologue
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
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Book Title: Doctor Marigold
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
I am a Cheap Jack, and my own father's name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content myself with looking at the argument this way: If a man is not allowed to know his own name in a free country,More... | |
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Book Title: The Stolen White Elephant
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
The following curious history was related to me by a chance railway
acquaintance. He was a gentleman more than seventy years of age, and his
thoroughly good and gentle face and earnest and sincere manner imprinted
the unmistakable stamp of truth upon every statement which fell from his
lips. He said:
You know in whatMore... | |
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Book Title: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Act 1
"scene" 1
Scene 1
[Elsinore. A platform before the castle.]
[FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO]
BERNARDO
Who's there?
FRANCISCO
Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.
BERNARDO
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Book Title: Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
CHAPTER I
Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a
little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that
time, like a comet. LIKE a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the
lot of them! Of course there warn't any of them going my way, as a
steady thing, you know, because they travel inMore... | |
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Book Title: All's Well That Ends Well
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Act 1
"scene" 1
Scene 1
[Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.]
[Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in
black]
COUNTESS
In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.
BERTRAM
And I inMore... | |
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Book Title: The Song of Roland
Author: Anonymous
Book Description:
Anonymous Old French epic, dating perhaps as early as the middle
11th century.
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Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign,
Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain,
Conquered the land, and won the western main,
Now no fortress against him doth remain,
No city walls are left for him to gain,
Save Sarraguce, that sits onMore... | |
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