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Fiction · 1906

The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

Reading time
about 7 h
Length
94,993 words · 210 pages
Structure
53 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V
  6. Chapter VI
  7. Chapter VII
  8. Chapter VIII
  9. Chapter I — A Dog’s Tale
  10. Chapter II
  11. Chapter III
  12. Chapter I — “You told a lie?”
  13. Chapter II
  14. Chapter III
  15. Chapter IV — Twelve days later
  16. Chapter V
  17. Chapter VI
  18. Chapter VII
  19. Chapter VIII
  20. Chapter IX
  21. A Cure for the Blues
  22. The Curious Book
  23. The Californian’s Tale
  24. A Helpless Situation
  25. A Telephonic Conversation
  26. Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
  27. Chapter I — The Five Boons of Life: In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket, and said:
  28. Chapter II — The fairy appeared, and said:
  29. Chapter III
  30. Chapter IV
  31. Chapter V
  32. The First Writing-Machines
  33. Italian Without a Master
  34. Italian with Grammar
  35. A Burlesque Biography
  36. How to Tell a Story
  37. General Washington’s Negro Body-Servant
  38. Wit Inspirations of the “Two-Year-Olds”
  39. An Entertaining Article
  40. A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
  41. Amended Obituaries
  42. A Monument to Adam
  43. A Humane Word from Satan
  44. Introduction to “The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and
  45. Dialogue 16 — For to See the Town
  46. Dialogue 17 — To Inform One’self of a Person
  47. Advice to Little Girls
  48. Post-Mortem Poetry (1)
  49. The Danger of Lying in Bed
  50. Portrait of King William III
  51. Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
  52. Extracts from Adam’s Diary
  53. Eve’s Diary
  54. Extract from Adam’s Diary

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Mark Twain

1835–1910 · Victorian

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), born in Florida, Missouri, and raised in Hannibal on the Mississippi. He was a printer, a river pilot, a prospector and a journalist in Nevada and California before The Celebrated Jumping Frog (1865) and The Innocents Abroad (1869) made his name. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889) followed. He lectured around the world to recover from bankruptcy in the 1890s and died in Connecticut.

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