Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, The £1000000 Bank Note: When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker’s clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock…
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities across the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century.
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, The £1000000 Bank Note: When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker’s clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, Was it Heaven? Or Hell? : “You told a LIE?” “You confess it – you actually confess it – you told a lie!” The family consisted…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, Eve’s Diary: SATURDAY — I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so,…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, A Dog’s Tale: CHAPTER I My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, The Californian’s Tale: Thirty-five years ago I was out prospecting on the Stanislaus, tramping all day long with pick and pan and horn, and washing a hatful…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured,…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, Edward Mills And George Benton: A Tale: These two were distantly related to each other — seventh cousins, or something of that sort. While still babies they…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, What Stumped the Bluejays: Animals talk to each other, of course. There can be no question about that; but I suppose there are very few people who…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, Luck: [Note – This is not a fancy sketch. I got it from a clergyman who was an instructor at Woolwich forty years ago, and who vouched…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, The Five Boons Of Life: CHAPTER I In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket, and said: “Here are gifts. Take one,…