Mark Twain
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A True Story, Word for Word as I Heard It
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"Thirty Thousand Killed a Million"
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Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
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Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
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Thomas Nast / Library of Congress A Telephonic Conversation
"I touched the bell and this talk ensued"
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The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
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The Recent Great French Duel
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About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
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The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
“‘None that have gone before me knew what love was, none that come after me will ever know what happiness is.’”
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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Part IV. "We never met a man, or woman, or child anywhere in this sunny island who seemed to be unprosperous, or discontented, or sorry about anything. This sort of monotony became very tiresome presently"
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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Part III. "We walked several miles that afternoon in the bewildering glare of the sun, the white roads, and the white buildings."
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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Part II. Away across the sunny waves one saw a faint dark stripe stretched along under the horizon,—or pretended to see it, for the credit of his eye-sight
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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
"We bought our tickets, and then went wandering around, here and there, in the solid comfort of being free and idle, and of putting distance between ourselves and the mails and telegraphs"
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The Canvasser's Tale
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The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
I said to myself, 'I am thoroughly happy and content, now. If my most pitiless enemy could appear before me at this moment, I would freely right any wrong I may have done him'"
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A Literary Nightmare
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Old Times on the Mississippi (Part VII)
The final installment in a seven-part series about the author’s youthful training as a riverboat pilot
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Old Times on the Mississippi (Part VI)
The sixth installment in a seven-part series about the author’s youthful training as a riverboat pilot
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Old Times on the Mississippi (Part V)
The fifth installment in a seven-part series about the author’s youthful training as a riverboat pilot
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Old Times on the Mississippi (Part IV)
The fourth installment in a seven-part series about the author’s youthful training as a riverboat pilot
