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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: LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
Author: Mark Twain
Book 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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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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Book Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Author: William Shakespeare
Book 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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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: Those Extraordinary Twins
Author: Mark Twain
Book 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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Book Title: The Tragedie of Cymbeline
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Actus Primus. Scoena Prima.
Enter two Gentlemen.
1.Gent. You do not meet a man but Frownes.
Our bloods no more obey the Heauens
Then our Courtiers:
Still seeme, as do's the Kings
2 Gent. But what's the matter?
1. His daughter, and the heire of's kingdome (whom
He purpos'd to his wiues sole Sonne, aMore... | |
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Book Title: Rambling Idle Excursion
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
All the journeyings I had ever done had been purely in the way of
business. The pleasant May weather suggested a novelty namely, a trip
for pure recreation, the bread-and-butter element left out. The Reverend
said he would go, too; a good man, one of the best of men, although a
clergyman. By eleven at night we were in NewMore... | |
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Book Title: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc v1
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
Chapter 1 When Wolves Ran Free in Paris
I, THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE, was born in Neufchateau, on
the 6th of January, 1410; that is to say, exactly two years before
Joan of Arc was born in Domremy. My family had fled to those
distant regions from the neighborhood of Paris in the first years of
the century. In politics theyMore... | |
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