CHAPTER X.
Only two or three days had elapsed since the funeral,
when something happened which was to change the drift
of Laura’s life somewhat, and influence in a
greater or lesser degree the f...
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
Whatever may have been the language of Harry’s
letter to the Colonel, the information it conveyed
was condensed or expanded, one or the other, from
the following episode of his v...
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CHAPTER XXXVII.
That Chairman was nowhere in sight. Such disappointments
seldom occur in novels, but are always happening in
real life.
She was obliged to make a new plan. She sent
him a...
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PREFACE.
This book was not written for private circulation
among friends; it was not written to cheer and instruct
a diseased relative of the author’s; it was
not thrown off during intervals of ...
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by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
1873
PREFACE.
This book was not written for private circulation
among friends; it was not written to cheer and instruct
a diseased relative of the author’...
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CHAPTER XIX.
Mr. Harry Brierly drew his pay as an engineer while
he was living at the City Hotel in Hawkeye.
Mr. Thompson had been kind enough to say that it didn’t
make any difference wh...
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CHAPTER LV.
Henry Brierly took the stand. Requested by the
District Attorney to tell the jury all he knew about
the killing, he narrated the circumstances substantially
as the reader already kn...
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CHAPTER XLVI.
Philip left the capitol and walked up Pennsylvania
Avenue in company with Senator Dilworthy. It
was a bright spring morning, the air was soft and
inspiring; in the deepening waysi...
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Mark Twain (1835-1910), American humorist and novelist, captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man's shortcomings that is humorous even while it probes, oft...
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Biography EssayIn the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Miss...
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At the end of a long and prolific career with the pen, America's favorite humorist grew reflective about his craft, yet kept his tongue firmly planted in his cheek: "I have always been able to gain my...
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In the early spring of 1835, John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave, in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was ...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to America and the world as Mark Twain, is one of the most loved and read men of American letters. Especially noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) a...
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When one considers Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life and writings, the role of literary critic is hardly the first category that comes to mind. Yet in the course of his career he compiled a large body ...
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An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distin...
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Mark Twain is the best-known and most-beloved American writer in the world, and his stature as the quintessential American writer rests in large part upon his "westernness." Born at the edge of the fr...
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For the readers of the late nineteenth century Samuel Clemens was first and foremost a travel writer, not a novelist. He earned his greatest respect and patronage from his contemporaries not for being...
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Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had kn...
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The Gilded Age, Part 2.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel Langhorne Clemens