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Book Title: The William Shakespeare Collection
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Since William Shakespeare was born so long ago, not many facts remain to build a complete biography on. The few facts that there are used to try and fill in the gaps of Shakespeare's life. For example, records show that William Shakespeare was baptized April 26th, 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. It was theMore... | |
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Book Title: Curious Republic of Gondour
Author: Mark Twain
Book 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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Book Title: Journal Of The Plague Year
Author: Daniel Defoe
Book Description:
Being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before
It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of myMore... | |
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Book Title: Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH ETHELTON
It was well along in the forenoon of a bitter winter's day. The town of
Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow that was
newly fallen. The customary bustle in the streets was wanting. One
could look long distances down them and see nothing butMore... | |
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Book Title: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Author: Mark Twain
Book 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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Book Title: Mark Twain's Speeches
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
INTRODUCTION
These speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those
who read them, but not with the effect they had with those who heard
them; Clemens himself would have said, not with half the effect. I have
noted elsewhere how he always held that the actor doubled the value of
the author's words; and heMore... | |
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Book Title: Complete Letters of Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
FOREWORD
Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters.
Notin literary letters--prepared with care, and the thought of possible
publication--but in those letters wrought out of the press of
circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind. A collection of such
documents, written by one whose life hasMore... | |
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Book Title: The American Claimant
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
EXPLANATORY
The Colonel Mulberry Sellers here re-introduced to the public is the same
person who appeared as Eschol Sellers in the first edition of the tale
entitled "The Gilded Age," years ago, and as Beriah Sellers in the
subsequent editions of the same book, and finally as Mulberry Sellers in
the drama played afterwardMore... | |
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Book Title: The Cricket on the Hearth
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
CHAPTER I - Chrip the First
THE kettle began it! Don't tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn't say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle did. I ought to know, I hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy-facedMore... | |
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Book Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Act 1
"scene" 1
Scene 1
[Before LEONATO'S house.]
[Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger]
LEONATO
I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon
comes this night to Messina.
Messenger
He is very nearMore... | |
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Book Title: On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Author: Mark Twain
Book 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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Book Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
PREFACE
THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical,
and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It
is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the
sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in
the English and otherMore... | |
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