The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
by Mark Twain 
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The $30,000 Bequest And Other Stories is a collection of short stories by the iconic American writer and humorist Mark Twain. Twain was immensely popular in his day, among his critics and contemporaries as well as the numerous artists, presidents, industrialists and members of royalty whom he counted as friends. He remains popular to this day and is considered one of the great American authors..
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"Tilbury now wrote to Sally, saying he should shortly die, and should leave him thirty thousand dollars, cash; not for love, but because money had given him most of his troubles and exasperations, and he wished to place it where there was good hope that it would continue its malignant work."
Man oh man, what a legacy. And that does happen, with both dark and humorous results. It's a nice illustration (or in this case, story) of not counting your chickens before they hatch.
Man oh man, what a legacy. And that does happen, with both dark and humorous results. It's a nice illustration (or in this case, story) of not counting your chickens before they hatch.
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Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a show more career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
- Original publication date
- 1906; 1906: This collection.; 1865-1906: Individual stories.
- First words
- Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Let him rest.
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- Danish, English
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 49
- ASINs
- 35
