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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: 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: 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: 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 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: Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again
Author: Mark Twain
Book 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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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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Book Title: Double Barrelled Detective
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
PART I
"We ought never to do wrong when people are looking."
I
The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There
has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a
rich young girl--a case of love at first sight and a precipitate
marriage; a marriage bitterly opposedMore... | |
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