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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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Book Title: WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN
Author: Mark Twain
Book 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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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: 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: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
Author: Mark Twain
Book 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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Book Title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Actus Primus. Scoena Prima.
Enter Demetrius and Philo.
Philo. Nay, but this dotage of our Generals
Ore-flowes the measure: those his goodly eyes
That o're the Files and Musters of the Warre,
Haue glow'd like plated Mars:
Now bend, now turne
The Office and Deuotion of their view
Vpon a Tawny Front. His CaptainesMore... | |
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Book Title: Carnival of Crime in CT
Author: Mark Twain
Book 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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Book Title: Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Book 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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Book Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
Chapter I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper.
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the
second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor
family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same
day another English child was born to a rich family of the name of
Tudor, who didMore... | |
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