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Ebook Title: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Author: William Shakespeare
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
WHAT IS MAN?
I
a. Man the Machine. b. Personal Merit
[The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old
Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and
nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into
particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.]
Old Man. WhatMore... | |
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Ebook Title: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright
town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation
unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of
any other of its possessions. It was so proud of it, and so anxious
to insure its perpetuation, that it began to teach theMore... | |
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Ebook Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
THE 'BODY OF THE NATION'
BUT the basin of the Mississippi is the BODY OF THE NATION.
All the other parts are but members, important in themselves,
yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of
the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico,
which in many aspects form a part of it, thisMore... | |
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Ebook Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Author: William Shakespeare
Ebook Description:
Act 1
"scene" 1
Scene 1
[Windsor. Before PAGE's house.]
[Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]
SHALLOW
Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-
chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John
Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow,More... | |
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Ebook Title: Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
LETTER I
SHANGHAI, 18-.
DEAR CHING-FOO: It is all settled, and I am to leave my oppressed and
overburdened native land and cross the sea to that noble realm where all
are free and all equal, and none reviled or abused--America! America,
whose precious privilege it is to callMore... | |
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Ebook Title: Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook 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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Ebook Title: Carnival of Crime in CT
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT CARNIVAL OF CRIME IN CONNECTICUT
I was feeling blithe, almost jocund. I put a match to my cigar, and just
then the morning's mail was handed in. The first superscription I
glanced at was in a handwriting that sent a thrill of pleasure through
and through me. It was Aunt Mary's; and she wasMore... | |
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Ebook Title: Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
Preface
THIS book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a
solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that
profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to
works of that kind, and withal so attractive. YetMore... | |
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Ebook Title: Those Extraordinary Twins
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
A man who is born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of
it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has
no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some
people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality. He knows
these people, he knows the selectedMore... | |
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