Nine stories include 'Mental Telegraphy,' 'A Cure for the Blues,' 'About All Kinds of Ships,' 'Playing Courier,' and 'A Majestic Literary Fossil'

Product Description: This vintage book contains Mark Twain’s 1893 collection of short stories, "The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories". "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note" chronicles the miraculous rags-to-riches journey of a prudent and enterprising broker’s clerk from San Francisco - who travels to London with only a dollar...read more

Product Description: When a greeting card is too little and a dozen roses is too much, a Greetings Book is the perfect gift. Features a full-color foil binding attractive enough to leave unwrapped, an inscribed removable bookmark, ribbon tie, and delicate full-color illustrations--all enhancing a classic and enduring short story...read more

Arriving in London penniless, a young American uses his wits to turn the bet of two wealthy English gentlemen into the foundation of his own fortune

Product Description: 1601:Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors is a classic work of American satire by Mark Twain. [Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a short risqué squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906...read more

Product Description: 1601 is Twain's hilarious pornographic send-up of Elizabethan England. In Is Shakespeare Dead?, an aging Twain meditates on Shakespeare and on his own chances for immortality.

Product Description: 1601, or Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the time of the Tudors is a hilarious ribald send-up of Elizabethan England in which Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and other luminaries of the period are pictured sitting about the fireplace amusing one another with risqué tales...read more

Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the pamphlet purports to record a conversation between Elizabeth and several famous writers of the day. The topics discussed are entirely scatological, notably farting and sex.

Product Description: The $30,000 Bequest is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...read more

Product Description: The $30,000 Bequest -- A Dog's Tale -- Was It Heaven? Or Hell? -- A Cure for the Blues -- The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant -- The Californian's Tale -- A Helpless Situation -- A Telephonic Conversation -- Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale -- The Five Boons of Life -- The First Writing-machines -- Italian without a Master -- Italian with Grammar -- A Burlesque Biography -- How to Tell a Story -- 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 Portuguese and English" -- Advice to Little Girls -- Post-mortem Poetry -- The Danger of Lying in Bed -- Portrait of King William III -- Does the Race of Man Love a Lord? -- Extracts from Adam's Diary -- Eve's Diary Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www...read more

Product Description: The 30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, by Mark Twain Includes: Complete Bibliography of Mark Twain, 100 Quotes of Mark Twain, Bio of Mark Twain, Stories included are: The $30,000 Bequest, A Dog's Tale, Was It Heaven? Or Hell?, A Cure for the Blues, The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant, The Californian's Tale, A Helpless Situation, A Telephonic Conversation, Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale, The Five Boons of Life, The First Writing Machines, Italian Without a Master, Italian With Grammar, A Burlesque Biography, How To Tell A Story, 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 Portuguese and English", Advice to Little Girls, Post-Mortem Poetry, The Danger of Lying in Bed, Portrait of King William III, Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?, Extracts from Adam's Diary, Eve's Diar...read more

Product Description: Mark Twain was certainly America's greatest writer. His genius enabled him to make entertaining reading, even great literature, out of almost anything. Therefore all his collections of miscellaneous shorter works are treasure-troves of short stories, essays, autobiography, and journalistic sketches, ranging, as this one does, from a story told from the point of view of a dog, an article about the first typewriters, to the beginnings of Twain's late, fantastic work, Biblical or religious fantasies in which he confronts the most profound issues of existence: "A Monument to Adam," "A Human Word from Satan," "Extracts from Adam's Diary," "Eve's Diary," etc...read more

Product Description: Two Short Story collections with two extra classic Mark Twain stories added for extra value! THE $30,000 BEQUEST AND OTHER STORIES THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG AND OTHER STORIES "THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY" "THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT"

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.

An omnibus edition of four of America's most influential and thought-provoking novels includes The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, and Billy Budd by Herman Melville. Reprint.

Product Description: Mark Twain: Abenteuer und Fahrten des Huckleberry Finn Lesefreundlicher Großdruck in 16-pt-Schrift Edition Holzinger. Großformat, 216 x 279 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2016 Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck: New York (Charles L...read more

Product Description: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...read more

Product Description: "Belles Lettres" is a series of small gift books aiming to combine word and image. Each one focuses on a particular issue relating to the quality of our lives, and presents a chosen author's thoughts on that subject.In this book, Mark Twain looks at the relationship between the sexes...read more

Product Description: It is early days in the Creation when Adam, previously all alone in the new world except for the company of the animals, to his complete shock finds himself gifted a new companion, Eve. With her arrival conflict enters the Garden of Eden as the world’s first couple discover in each other a source of continual irritation...read more

Product Description: Book by Twain, Mark