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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: 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: 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: 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: The Song of Roland
Author: Anonymous
Book Description:
Anonymous Old French epic, dating perhaps as early as the middle
11th century.
I
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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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: 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: 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: 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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