Those Extraordinary Twins was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twains The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson. As Twain explains, he extricated...
Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street. by MELVILLE, Herman
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnams Magazine in two parts. The first part...
Herman (ungekürzt)
Herman findet sein leben soweit ganz in Ordnung. Er mag die rothaarige Ruby, in deren Haar womöglich ein paar Vogelnester versteckt sind. Er mag seine Mutter, die mit ihrem...
Benjamin Herman
Wie Benjamin ontmoet of waar hij uithangt bepaalt wekelijks welke platen hij uitkiest. Van vergeten Europese jazzhelden tot obscure tracks van legendarische musici. Van straight...
Life On The Mississippi By Mark Twain
A river memoir documenting Twains early days as an apprentice steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. Reminiscing about his happy experiences as a...
Stolen White Elephant, The by TWAIN, Mark
In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to...
Treaty with China, The by TWAIN, Mark
A good candidate for the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain would be The Treaty With China, which he published in the New York Tribune in 1868. This piece, which is an...
My Mark Twain by HOWELLS, William Dean
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howell,...
Extracts From Adam's Diary By Mark Twain
Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adams life from happiness in the GARDEN-OF-EDEN to their fall from...
Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain
...if I should talk to a stenographer two hours a day for a hundred years, I should still never be able to set down a tenth part of the things which have interested me in my...
