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Mark Twain - Eve’s Diary (version 2)
Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers publishing house. It is...
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Mark Twain - Stolen White Elephant
In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to...
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Humorous Fiction
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Mark Twain - Eve’s Diary
Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world around her and… Adam! The following is an extract from Adam: “She is all...
Esther
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Epistolary Fiction
530
Mark Twain - Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the «Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal», is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shameful portrait of how...
John Greenman
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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
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Mark Twain - Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, a short volume, published by Sheldon & Co., NY in 1871, is Mark Twain's third book. It consists of two stories — First Romance, which had originally appeared...
John Greenman
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Essays & Short Works
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Mark Twain - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)
This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (often spelled «Offences») (1895),...
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Satire
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Mark Twain - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
Fenimore Cooper — author of The Deerslayer , The Last of the Mohicans , etc — has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for his writing. Mark Twain wrote a funny, vicious little essay on the...
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Family Life
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Mark Twain - Dog's Tale
This short novel of Twain’s, from 1903, is told from the point of view of a loyal and beloved family pet. Themes of heroics, valor and heart-wrenching tenderness fill this work. The story is also filled with happy...
Aaron Elliott
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Humorous Fiction
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Mark Twain - Extracts from Adam's Diary
Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in the “GARDEN-OF-EDEN” to their fall from grace and the events thereafter. Learn...
Mr. Baby Man
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Mark Twain - 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors
Please note: this recording contains strong language. «1601,» wrote Mark Twain, «is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson,...
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Stolen Bacillus and other stories
H. G. Wells
Eight Keys to Eden
Mark Clifton
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)
William Blake
Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916
Short Story Collection Vol. 081
Around the World with the Children
Frank G. Carpenter
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