Mark Twain
Posted on August 31, 2007. Filed under: Mark Twain |
by MARK TWAIN
CHAPTER I“You told a LIE?”
“You confess it–you actually confess it–you told a lie!”
CHAPTER II
The family consisted of four persons: Margaret Lester, widow, aged thirty six; Helen Lester, her daughter, aged sixteen; Mrs. Lester’s maiden aunts, Hannah and Hester Gray, twins, aged sixty-seven. Waking and sleeping, the three women spent their days and night [...]
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Posted on August 21, 2007. Filed under: Mark Twain, Short Stories |
by Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Word Count: 2623
I found that a person of large intelligence could read this beautiful language with considerable facility without a dictionary, but I presently found that to such a parson a grammar could be of use at times. It is because, if he does not know the were’s and the was’s and [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2007. Filed under: Mark Twain, Short Stories |
by MARK TWAINIn compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend’s friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result. I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is [...]
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