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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 $30,000 BEQUEST and Other Stories
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
THE $30,000 BEQUEST
CHAPTER I
Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants,
and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West.
It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is
the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious,
and where each of theMore... | |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Book Title: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc v2
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
Chapter 28 Joan Foretells Her Doom
THE TROOPS must have a rest. Two days would be allowed for
this.
The morning of the 14th I was writing from Joan's dictation in a
small room which she sometimes used as a private office when she
wanted to get away from officials and their interruptions.
Catherine Boucher came in and satMore... | |
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