1 option
The $30,000 bequest, and other stories / by Mark Twain [pseudonym] ...
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS1322 .T5 1906
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Twain, Mark.
- United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 522 pages : portrait, illustrations, 7 plates ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1906.
- Contents:
- The $30,000 bequest
- A dog's tale
- Was it heaven? or hell?
- The Californian's tale
- A helpless situation
- A telephonic conversation
- Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale
- Saint Joan of Arc
- The five boons of life
- The first writing-machines
- Italian without a master
- Italian with grammar
- A burlesque biography
- 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 Portugese and English"
- Advice to little girls
- Post-mortem poetry
- A deception
- The danger of lying in bed
- Portrait of King William III
- Does the race of man love a lord?
- Eve's diary
- The invalid's story
- The captain's story
- Mark Twain: a biographical sketch
- In memoriam
- The belated Russian passport
- Two little tales
- Diplomatic pay and clothes
- Extracts from Adam's Diary
- The death disk
- A double-barrelled detective story.
- Notes:
- Many of the illustrations signed A L or Albert Levering.
- Includes: Mark Twain, a biographical sketch, by Samuel E. Moffett.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- OCLC:
- 272621
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.