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The $30,000 bequest, and other stories / by Mark Twain [pseudonym] ...

LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS1322 .T5 1906
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Contributor:
Moffett, Samuel E. (Samuel Erasmus), 1860-1908.
Levering, Albert, 1869-1929, illustrator.
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

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