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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

Fantastic Fiction

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Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the...

John Greenman 1 hour 26 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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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 37 minutes

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Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

General Fiction

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Mark Twain - Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to «be remembered» somehow. Taken as a...

John Greenman 1 hour 53 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Mark Twain - In Defense of Harriet Shelley

Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the «real» Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's «Life of Shelley». Even though, as Twain writes, «Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it,...

John Greenman 1 hour 43 minutes

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Mark Twain - Treaty with China

«A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New York Tribune in 1868. This piece, which is an early statement of Twain's opposition...

John Greenman 46 minutes

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Literary Collections

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Mark Twain - Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

This is a collection of newspaper articles written by Samuel Clemens, for various newspapers, between 1862 and 1881. After Feb 3rd 1863, he began using the pen name Mark Twain. This compilation is the work of Project...

John Greenman 50 hours 58 minutes

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Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance

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 34 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Those Extraordinary Twins

«Those Extraordinary Twins» was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's «The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson». As Twain explains, he extricated «Twins» from «Pudd'nhead» when he...

John Greenman 2 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mark Twain - Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories

A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature The Grateful Poodle The...

John Greenman 3 hours 20 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Mark Twain - Double Barreled Detective Story

A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes,...

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer, Detective

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a...

John Greenman 2 hours 8 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Sketches New and Old

This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains «The Jumping Frog» in the original English, followed by a French translation (read here by Caroline Mittler) which...

John Greenman 10 hours 34 minutes

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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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