Mark Twain

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The old godless captain Stormfield believed neither in God, nor in hell, nor in paradise, nor in hell. Imagine his surprise when, after his death, flying through the bottomless depths of space, he nevertheless arrived in paradise. He was even more surprised when he became acquainted with the local order – it was too painfully different from the stories about the paradise of priests on Earth...

In this short 1904 work, from late in his career, Mark Twain imagines how Adam was introduced to Eve. "This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this, I am not used to company..." Twain also published a companion volume, Eve's Diary.

All of Mark Twain's classic American adventure stories featuring his most beloved characters, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, are brought together in the Ultimate Tom Sawyer and Friends Collection. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom, Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Becky find themselves in amusing and sometimes dangerous adventures. The friends' mischief continues in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Detective, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. ...

Published in 1897, this collection of essays includes Twain's scathing demolishment of the literary pretensions of James Fenimore Cooper, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses," as well as equally amusing if lighter fare like "The Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story" and the title essay, an insightful description of his own methods.

What Is Man? is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature of man. The title refers to Psalm 8:4, which begins "what is man, that you are mindful of him...". It involves ideas of determinism and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserts that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more, driven by the singular purpose to satisfy...

The classic, partly fictional travelogue through late-nineteenth-century Europe by the great American satirist and author of Innocents Abroad. Based on true events-embellished with fictional tales and a made-up travel partner-Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad chronicles his meandering journey through Germany, the French and Swiss Alps, and Northern Italy. Attempting to make the trip by foot, Twain ventures down the Neckar river by raft, ascends Mont Blanc...

Excerpt: "It was well along in the forenoon of a bitter winter's day. The town of Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow that was newly fallen. The customary bustle in the streets was wanting. One could look long distances down them and see nothing but a dead-white emptiness, with silence to match. Of course, I do not mean that you could, see the silence, no, you could only hear it. The sidewalks were merely long, deep ditches,...

"Good deal of fog this morning. I do not go out in the fog myself," notes Adam in his diary, adding, "The new creature does. It goes out in all weathers. And talks. It used to be so pleasant and quiet here." Adam has a lot to learn about Eve, and even more from her, as she names the animals, discovers fire, and introduces all manner of innovations to their garden home. Mark Twain's "translation" of the diaries of the first man and woman offers a humorous...