Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale Herman Melville ETYMOLOGY. (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School.) The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, hea…
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ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) By Mark Twain NOTICE. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; …
CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY By MARK TWAIN Prefatory Note.—Mr. Clemens began to write his autobiography many years ago, and he continues to add to i…
EVE'S DIARY By Mark Twain Illustrated by Lester Ralph Translated from the Original SATURDAY.—I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. Th…
FENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCES by Mark Twain The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer stand at the head of Cooper's novels as artistic creations. There …
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.—It is Remarkable.— Instead of Widening…
MARK TWAIN’S SPEECHES by Mark Twain CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PREFACE THE STORY OF A SPEECH PLYMOUTH ROCK AND THE PILGRIMS COMPLIMENTS AND DEGREES BOOKS, …
ROUGHING IT By Mark Twain PREFATORY. This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a …
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) PREFACE Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two…
THE BEST AMERICAN HUMOROUS SHORT STORIES Edited by ALEXANDER JESSUP Editor of “Representative American Short Stories,” “The Book of the Short Story,” …
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, AND OTHER STORIES By Mark Twain Note: “The Mysterious Stranger” was written in 1898 and never finished. The editors of Twain'…
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson By Mark Twain A WHISPER to the Reader. There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by rid…
WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS By Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) CONTENTS WHAT IS MAN? THE DEATH OF JEAN THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE…
THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES From a photograph by Alice Boughton, New York, February 9, 1907 THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES EDITED BY HIS SON HENRY JAME…