Download or read book The 30 000 Bequest and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories," published in 1906, is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained the most successful plays he created throughout his career, from "Advice to Young Girls" in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904.
Download or read book The 30 000 Bequest and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1907 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Money had brought him misery, and he took his revenge upon us, who had done him no harm. He had his desire: with base and cunning calculation he left us but thirty thousand, knowing we would try to increase it, and ruin our life and break our hearts." -The $30,000 Bequest (1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of humorous tales by Mark Twain, covering his lifelong career. The title story is classic Twain, about an old man leaving a distant relative a life-changing sum of money, only to be collected under strict terms. Other stories include A Dog's Tale, Was it Heaven? Or Hell?, Does the Race of Man Love a Lord? and many others. This replica of the 1907 edition of The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a real treat for booklovers and fans of Mark Twain.
Download or read book The 30 000 Bequest and other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The $30,000 Bequest and other Stories by Mark Twain
Download or read book The 30 000 Bequest written by Mark Twain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The $30,000 Bequest Mark Twain The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Mark Twain is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Mark Twain then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
Download or read book The 30 000 bequest and other stories written by Mark Twain and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1872-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of Mark Twain's funniest stories have been gathered into this volume. Some have appeared before in book form while other more recent ones have seen print only in magazines. The volume includes, among many other stories: A dog's tale, The Californian's tale, A telephone conversation, Italian with grammar, The danger of lying in bed, Eve's diary, The $30.000 Bequest and many more.
Download or read book The 30 000 Bequest written by Mark Twain and published by Harper and Brothers. This book was released on 1903 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The 30000 Bequest written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: "I didn't mean so bad as that, Aleck; I didn't really mean immoral piety, I only meant--meant--well, conventional piety, you know; er--shop piety; the--the--why, YOU know what I mean. Aleck--the--well, where you put up that plated article and play it for solid, you know, without intending anything improper, but just out of trade habit, ancient policy, petrified custom, loyalty to--to--hang it, I can't find the right words, but YOU know what I mean, Aleck, and that there isn't any harm in it. I'll try again. You see, it's this way. If a person--""You have said quite enough," said Aleck, coldly; "let the subject be dropped.""I'M willing," fervently responded Sally, wiping the sweat from his forehead and looking the thankfulness he had no words for. Then, musingly, he apologized to himself. "I certainly held threes-- I KNOW it--but I drew and didn't fill. That's where I'm so often weak in the game. If I had stood pat--but I didn't. I never do. I don't know enough."Confessedly defeaRead More
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Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of–in the words of H. L. Mencken–“the father of our national literature.”
Download or read book The 30 000 Bequest and Other Stories illustrated Edition written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained span the course of his career, from "Advice to Young Girls" in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904
Download or read book Was It Heaven or Hell written by Mark Twain and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family consisted of four persons: Margaret Lester, widow, aged thirty six; Helen Lester, her daughter, aged sixteen; Mrs. LesterÕs maiden aunts, Hannah and Hester Gray, twins, aged sixty-seven. Waking and sleeping, the three women spent their days and night in adoring the young girl; in watching the movements of her sweet spirit in the mirror of her face; in refreshing their souls with the vision of her bloom and beauty; in listening to the music of her voice; in gratefully recognizing how rich and fair for them was the world with this presence in it; in shuddering to think how desolate it would be with this light gone out of it. By natureÑand insideÑthe aged aunts were utterly dear and lovable and good, but in the matter of morals and conduct their training had been so uncompromisingly strict that it had made them exteriorly austere, not to say stern. Their influence was effective in the house; so effective that the mother and the daughter conformed to its moral and religious requirements cheerfully, contentedly, happily, unquestionably. To do this was become second nature to them. And so in this peaceful heaven there were no clashings, no irritations, no fault-finding, no heart-burnings. In it a lie had no place. In it a lie was unthinkable. In it speech was restricted to absolute truth, iron-bound truth, implacable and uncompromising truth, let the resulting consequences be what they might. At last, one day, under stress of circumstances, the darling of the house sullied her lips with a lieÑand confessed it, with tears and self-upbraidings. There are not any words that can paint the consternation of the aunts. It was as if the sky had crumpled up and collapsed and the earth had tumbled to ruin with a crash. They sat side by side, white and stern, gazing speechless upon the culprit, who was on her knees before them with her face buried first in one lap and then the other, moaning and sobbing, and appealing for sympathy and forgiveness and getting no response, humbly kissing the hand of the one, then of the other, only to see it withdrawn as suffering defilement by those soiled lips.
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Download or read book Mr Felton s Bequests written by John Poynter and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Felton, a bachelor of definite opinions and benignly eccentric habits, was one of the remarkable group of Melbourne merchants who dominated the economy of the Australian colonies in the decades after the gold rush. In 1904 he left his substantial fortune in trust, the income to be spent by a committee of his friends, half on charities (especially for women and children), and half on works of art for the National Gallery of Victoria, works calculated to 'raise and improve public taste'. The Gallery suddenly gained acquisition funds greater than those of London's National and Tate galleries combined, and between 1904 and 2004 more than 15 000 items were purchased for it by the Felton Bequest. 'Although the last quarter of the twentieth century saw a dramatic and exciting expansion of Australian art museums', Patrick McCaughey writes in the foreword of this book, 'no institution could hope to replicate the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria assembled under the aegis of the Felton Bequest.' How the Felton Bequests' Committee carried out its tasks, in cooperation and sometimes in conflict with the Trustees of the Gallery, is a human story of many triumphs and occasional follies, of decisions made and unmade amid changing notions of art, philanthropy and public taste. John Poynter's account of Felton's life and the story of his Bequests covers most of Melbourne's history, from the unusual view point of three themes, business, art and charity.
Download or read book The 30 000 Bequest and Other Short Stories written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained span the course of his career, from "Advice to Young Girls" in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904.
Download or read book The 30 000 Bequest and Other Stories Annotated written by Mark Twain and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, by Mark Twain Includes: Complete Bibliography of Mark Twain, 100 Quotes of Mark Twain, Bio of Mark Twain, Stories included are: The $30,000 Bequest, A Dog's Tale, Was It Heaven? Or Hell?, A Cure for the Blues, The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant, The Californian's Tale, A Helpless Situation, A Telephonic Conversation, Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale, The Five Boons of Life, The First Writing Machines, Italian Without a Master, Italian With Grammar, A Burlesque Biography, How To Tell A Story, General Washington's Negro Body-Servant, Wit Inspirations of the "Two Year-Olds," An Entertaining Article, A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, Amended Obituaries, A Monument to Adam, A Humane Word from Satan, Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English," Advice to Little Girls, Post-Mortem Poetry, The Danger of Lying in Bed, Portrait of King William III, Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?, Extracts from Adam's Diary, Eve's Diary
Download or read book The 30 000 Bequest and Other Short Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE $30,000 BEQUEST AND OTHER SHORT STORIES BY MARK TWAIN WITH BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC COVER. PERFECTLY FOR EVERYONE WHO LOVES CLASSIC HUMOROUS BOOKS OR AS A GIFT FOR YOU LOVED ONE. GET YOURS TODAY! Specifications: Cover Finish: GLOSSY Dimensions: 5,25" x 8" (13,34 x 20,32 cm) Interior: White Paper Pages: 264
