Novelette e-books (1h to read) of Mark Twain

Bibliography' (1912), and in the publication of Mark Twain's Notebook (1935).

I. It was many years ago.

PART I "We ought never to do wrong when people are looking."

Part 4. CHAPTER XVI. WE slept most all day, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession.

Part 7. CHAPTER XXXI.

I I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when I might...

NOTE: Most of the sketches in this volume were taken from a series the author wrote for The Galaxy from May, 1870, to April, 1871.

Part 3. CHAPTER XI. "COME in," says the woman, and I did.

Part 2. CHAPTER VI. WELL, pretty soon the old man was up and around again, and then he went for Judge Thatcher in the courts to make him give up that money, and he went for me, too, for not sto...

Part 5. CHAPTER XXI.

Part 8. CHAPTER XXXVI.

I. All the journeyings I had ever done had been purely in the way of business.

The author, J. Howard Moore, sent a copy of his book, The Universal Kinship, with a letter in which he said: "Most humorists have no anxiety except to glorify themselves and add substance...

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 2 CHAPTER IV THE sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction.

My First Literary Venture I was a very smart child at the age of thirteen--an unusually smart child, I thought at the time.

Part 6. CHAPTER XXVI.

CONTENTS: WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US A LITTLE NOTE TO M. PAUL BOURGET WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US He reports the American joke correctly.

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 1. PREFACE The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are a...

Part 9. Chapter XXXII.

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 2. CHAPTER VII MERLIN'S TOWER Inasmuch as I was now the second personage in the Kingdom, as far as political power and authority were conce...

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 4 CHAPTER XIII TOM'S mind was made up now.

Part 1. CONTENTS (Entire ebook) Preface My Watch Political Economy The Jumping Frog Journalism In Tennessee The Story Of The Bad Little Boy The Story Of The Good Little Boy A Coup...

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 9. CHAPTER XLI THE INTERDICT However, my attention was suddenly snatched from such matters; our child began to lose ground again, and we ha...

Part 6. Chapter 26 Under Fire TALK began to run upon the war now, for we were getting down into the upper edge of the former battle-stretch by this time.

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 7. CHAPTER XXXII DOWLEY'S HUMILIATION Well, when that cargo arrived toward sunset, Saturday afternoon, I had my hands full to keep the Marc...

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 7 CHAPTER XXVIII THAT night Tom and Huck were ready for their adventure.

CHAPTER I A Tramp over Europe--On the Holsatia--Hamburg--Frankfort-on-the- Main--How it Won its Name--A Lesson in Political Economy--Neatness in Dress--Rhine Legends--"The Knave of Bergen" The Famo...

1880 Part 3. CHAPTER XXI.

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 5. CHAPTER XXIII RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN Saturday noon I went to the well and looked on a while.

(Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition * * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS: 1.   PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR 2.   TITIAN'S MOSES 3.   TH...

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 8. CHAPTER XXXVI AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK London--to a slave--was a sufficiently interesting place.

Part 7. FIRST INTERVIEW WITH ARTEMUS WARD--[Written about 1870.] I had never seen him before.

Part 3. DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY In San Francisco, the other day, "A well-dressed boy, on his way to Sunday-school, was arrested and thrown into the city prison for stoning Chinamen."

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Part 4 CHAPTER XXX.

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 4. CHAPTER XVII A ROYAL BANQUET Madame, seeing me pacific and unresentful, no doubt judged that I was deceived by her excuse; for her frig...

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 6. CHAPTER XXVII THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO About bedtime I took the king to my private quarters to cut his hair and help him...

Part 4. THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN--[Written about 1870.] ["Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well."--B. F.] This party was one of those persons whom the...

Part 4. Chapter 16 Racing Days IT was always the custom for the boats to leave New Orleans between four and five o'clock in the afternoon.

Part 7. Chapter 31 A Thumb-print and What Came of It WE were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas.

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 3. CHAPTER XII SLOW TORTURE Straight off, we were in the country.

Part 5. THE SIAMESE TWINS--[Written about 1868.] I do not wish to write of the personal habits of these strange creatures solely, but also of certain curious details of various kinds concerning...

Part 3. Chapter 11 The River Rises DURING this big rise these small-fry craft were an intolerable nuisance.

Part 2. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS--[Written about 1865.] "MORAL STATISTICIAN."--I don't want any of your statistics; I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it.

1880 Part 4. CHAPTER XXXI.

Part 11.

(Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition * * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS: 1.   PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR 2.   TITIAN'S MOSES 3.   THE...

Chapter 1 The River and Its History THE Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Part 2. Chapter 6 A Cub-pilot's Experience WHAT with lying on the rocks four days at Louisville, and some other delays, the poor old 'Paul Jones' fooled away about two weeks in making the voya...