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Ebook Title: Essays on Paul Bourget
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: A TRAMP ABROAD
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: In Defence of Harriet Shelley
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: Curious Republic of Gondour
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
THE CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOUR
As soon as I had learned to speak the language a little, I became greatly
interested in the people and the system of government.
I found that the nation had at first tried universal suffrage pure and
simple, but had thrown that form aside because the result was not
satisfactory. It hadMore... | |
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Ebook Title: All's Well That Ends Well
Author: William Shakespeare
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: The Stolen White Elephant
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY
Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Ebook 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;
WholeMore... | |
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Ebook Title: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: The Song of Roland
Author: Anonymous
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
CHAPTER 1
Pudd'nhead Wins His Name
Tell the truth or trump--but get the trick.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing,
on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey,
per steamboat, below St. Louis.
In 1830 it was a snug collection of modestMore... | |
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Ebook Title: On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the _custom_ of lying has
suffered any decay or interruption--no, for the Lie, as a Virtue, A Principle,
is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the
fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and
cannot perish from the earthMore... | |
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