Essays on Paul Bourget

Title: Essays on Paul Bourget Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston they ask, How much does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philadelphia, Who were his parents? And when an alien observer turns his telescope upon us--advertisedly in our own special interest--a natural apprehension moves us to ask, What is the diameter of his reflector? I take a great interest in M. Bourget's chapters, for I know by the newspapers that there are several Americans who are expecting to get a whole education out of them; several who foresaw, and also foretold, that our long night was over, and a light almost divine about to break upon the land. "His utterances concerning us are bound to be weighty and well timed." ... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM Essays on Paul Bourget is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

Mark Twain's Speeches

Title: Mark Twain's Speeches Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: INTRODUCTION These speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those who read them, but not with the effect they had with those who heard them; Clemens himself would have said, not with half the effect. I have noted elsewhere how he always held that the actor doubled the value of the author's words; and he was a great actor as well as a great author. He was a most consummate actor, with this difference from other actors, that he was the first to know the thoughts and invent the fancies to which his voice and action gave the color of life. Representation is the art of other actors; his art was creative as well as representative; it was nothing at second hand. I never heard Clemens speak when I thought he quite failed; some burst or... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM Mark Twain's Speeches is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

Title: Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: CHAPTER I Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. LIKE a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there warn't any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush together. But it was generally pretty one-sided, because I sailed by them the same as if they were standing still. An ordinary comet don't make more than about 200,000 miles a minute. Of course when I came across one... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

Extracts From Adam's Diary

Title: Extracts From Adam's Diary Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: [NOTE.--I translated a portion of this diary some years ago, and a friend of mine printed a few copies in an incomplete form, but the public never got them. Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam's hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.--M. T.] Monday 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. I wish it would stay with the other animals. Cloudy to-day, wind in the east; think we shall have rain. ... Where did I get that word? ... I remember now-- the new creature uses it. Tuesday Been examining the great waterfall. It is the finest... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM Extracts From Adam's Diary is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

FENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCES

Title: FENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCES Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer stand at the head of Cooper's novels as artistic creations. There are others of his works which contain parts as perfect as are to be found in these, and scenes even more thrilling. Not one can be compared with either of them as a finished whole. The defects in both of these tales are comparatively slight. They were pure works of art.--Prof. Lounsbury. The five tales reveal an extraordinary fulness of invention. . . . One of the very greatest characters in fiction, Natty Bumppo . . . . The craft of the woodsman, the tricks of the trapper, all the delicate art of the forest, were familiar to Cooper... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM FENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCES is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR

A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD

Title: FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: CHAPTER I. A man may have no bad habits and have worse. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. The starting point of this lecturing-trip around the world was Paris, where we had been living a year or two. We sailed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary. We started westward from New York in midsummer, with Major Pond to manage the platform-business as far as the Pacific. It was warm work, all the way, and the last fortnight of it was suffocatingly smoky, for in Oregon and Columbia the forest fires were raging. We had an added week of smoke at the... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again

Title: Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: LETTER I SHANGHAI, 18-. DEAR CHING-FOO: It is all settled, and I am to leave my oppressed and overburdened native land and cross the sea to that noble realm where all are free and all equal, and none reviled or abused--America! America, whose precious privilege it is to call herself the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. We and all that are about us here look over the waves longingly, contrasting the privations of this our birthplace with the opulent comfort of that happy refuge. We know how America has welcomed the Germans and the Frenchmen and the stricken and sorrowing Irish, and we know how she has given them bread and work, and liberty, and how grateful they are. And we know that America... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

In Defence of Harriet Shelley

Title: In Defence of Harriet Shelley Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: I I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when I might have been living on the fat diet spread for the righteous in Professor Dowden's Life of Shelley, if I had been justly dealt with. During these six years I have been living a life of peaceful ignorance. I was not aware that Shelley's first wife was unfaithful to him, and that that was why he deserted her and wiped the stain from his sensitive honor by entering into soiled relations with Godwin's young daughter. This was all new to me when I heard it lately, and was told that the proofs of it were in this book, and that this book's verdict is accepted in the... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM In Defence of Harriet Shelley is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

Innocents Abroad

Title: Innocents Abroad Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: Preface THIS book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind, and withal so attractive. Yet notwithstanding it is only a record of a pic-nic, it has a purpose, which is to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who traveled in those countries before him. I make small pretense of showing anyone how he ought to look at objects of interest beyond the sea -- other books do that, and therefore, even if I were competent to do it, there is no... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM Innocents Abroad is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?

FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Title: IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: CHAPTER I Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found which deal with "Claimants"--claimants historically notorious: Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, Claimant; Louis XVII., Claimant; William Shakespeare, Claimant; Arthur Orton, Claimant; Mary Baker G. Eddy, Claimant--and the rest of them. Eminent Claimants, successful Claimants, defeated Claimants, royal Claimants, pleb Claimants, showy Claimants, shabby Claimants, revered Claimants, despised Claimants, twinkle starlike here and there and yonder through the mists of history and legend and tradition--and oh, all... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

Title: LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: THE 'BODY OF THE NATION' BUT the basin of the Mississippi is the BODY OF THE NATION. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with about seven-ninths; the Lena, Amoor, Hoang-ho, Yang-tse-kiang, and Nile, five-ninths; the... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY

Title: MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY Author: Albert Bigelow Paine Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: N ACKNOWLEDGMENT Dear William Dean Howells, Joseph Hopkins Twichell, Joseph T. Goodman, and other old friends of Mark Twain: I cannot let these volumes go to press without some grateful word to you who have helped me during the six years and more that have gone to their making. First, I want to confess how I have envied you your association with Mark Twain in those days when you and he "went gipsying, a long time ago." Next, I want to express my wonder at your willingness to give me so unstintedly from your precious letters and memories, when it is in the nature of man to hoard such treasures, for himself and for those who follow him. And, lastly, I want to tell you that I do not envy you so much, any more, for in these chapters, one after... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

Title: On the Decay of the Art of Lying Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the _custom_ of lying has suffered any decay or interruption--no, for the Lie, as a Virtue, A Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this club remains. My complaint simply concerns the decay of the _art_ of lying. No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a noble art so prostituted. In this veteran presence I naturally enter upon this theme with diffidence; it is like an old maid trying to teach nursery matters to the mothers in Israel. It would not become to me to... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM On the Decay of the Art of Lying is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc v2

Title: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc v2 Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: Chapter 28 Joan Foretells Her Doom THE TROOPS must have a rest. Two days would be allowed for this. The morning of the 14th I was writing from Joan's dictation in a small room which she sometimes used as a private office when she wanted to get away from officials and their interruptions. Catherine Boucher came in and sat down and said: "Joan, dear, I want you to talk to me." "Indeed, I am not sorry for that, but glad. What is in your mind?" "This. I scarcely slept last night, for thinking of the dangers you are running. The Paladin told me how you made the duke stand out of the way when the cannon-balls were flying all about, and so saved his life." "Well, that was right, wasn't it?" "Right? Yes; but you stayed there yourself. Why will... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc v2 is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc v1

Title: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc v1 Author: Mark Twain Category: Classic Price: $3.00 Date Added: 2006-02-20 Ebook format: .PDF Description: Chapter 1 When Wolves Ran Free in Paris I, THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE, was born in Neufchateau, on the 6th of January, 1410; that is to say, exactly two years before Joan of Arc was born in Domremy. My family had fled to those distant regions from the neighborhood of Paris in the first years of the century. In politics they were Armagnacs--patriots; they were for our own French King, crazy and impotent as he was. The Burgundian party, who were for the English, had stripped them, and done it well. They took everything but my father's small nobility, and when he reached Neufchateau he reached it in poverty and with a broken spirit. But the political atmosphere there was the sort he liked, and that was something. He came to a region of comparative quiet; he... Read More... OR only for $3.00 PayPal or ClickBank The charge will show on your billing statement as CLKBANK*COM Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc v1 is delivered in PDF format and is viewable on any computer. All you need is Adobe Reader or Acrobat eBook Reader which is available free and already on most computers. If you do not have it installed on your computer, Please Click here to get the software. They are both Free.