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Book Title: Extracts From Adam's Diary
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
[NOTE.--I translated a portion of this diary some years ago, and
a friend of mine printed a few copies in an incomplete form, but
the public never got them. Since then I have deciphered some more
of Adam's hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently
important as a public character to justify this publication.--M.More... | |
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Book Title: A Horse's Tale
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
CHAPTER I - SOLDIER BOY - PRIVATELY TO HIMSELF
I am Buffalo Bill's horse. I have spent my life under his saddle -
with him in it, too, and he is good for two hundred pounds, without
his clothes; and there is no telling how much he does weigh when he
is out on the war-path and has his batteries belted on. He isMore... | |
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Book Title: FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
CHAPTER I.
A man may have no bad habits and have worse.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
The starting point of this lecturing-trip around the world was Paris,
where we had been living a year or two.
We sailed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took
but little time. Two members of my familyMore... | |
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Book Title: A Dog's Tale
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
CHAPTER I
My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a
Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice
distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning
nothing. My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and
see other dogs look surprised andMore... | |
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Book Title: FENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCES
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer stand at the head of Cooper's
novels as artistic creations. There are others of his works
which contain parts as perfect as are to be found in these, and
scenes even more thrilling. Not one can be compared with
either of them as a finished whole.
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Book Title: David Copperfield
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION
I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret - pleasureMore... | |
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Book Title: IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
CHAPTER I
Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished
manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary
of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found
which deal with "Claimants"--claimants historically notorious:
Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the VeiledMore... | |
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