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Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910Clemens made a brief trip to Bermuda during the winter, taking Twichell along; their first return to the island since the trip when they had promised to come back so soon-nearly thirty years before. They had...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907It would be hard to exaggerate the stir which the newspapers and the public generally made over the homecoming of Mark Twain. He had left America, staggering under heavy obligation and set out on a pilgrimage...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900The Browning readings must have begun about this time. Just what kindled Mark Twain's interest in the poetry of Robert Browning is not remembered, but very likely his earlier associations with the poet had something to...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900"A man reaches the zenith at forty, the top of the hill. From that time forward he begins to descend. If you have any great undertaking ahead, begin it now. You will never be so capable...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 2: 1866-1875Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 2: 1866-1875 It was not easy to take up the daily struggle again, but it was necessary.[Clemens once declared he had been so blue at this period that one morning he put a loaded pistol to his...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 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...
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Letters of PlinyLetters of Pliny GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, usually known as Pliny the Younger, was born at Como in 62 A. D. He was only eight years old when his father Caecilius died, and he was adopted by his uncle, the elder Pliny, author of...
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My Ten Years' ImprisonmentMy Ten Years' ImprisonmentHave I penned these memorials, let me ask myself, from any paltry vanity, or desire to talk about that self? I hope this is not the case, and forasmuch as one may be able to judge in ones own cause, I...
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My Life and My EffortsMy Life and My EffortsKarl May, born in 1842 under the name Carl Friedrich May, published the first volume of his autobiography in November of 1910. He never found the time to write the planned second volume or any of the other future works...
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Mein Leben und StrebenMein Leben und StrebenWenn man von der Erde aus drei Monate lang geraden Weges nach der Sonne geht und dann in derselben Richtung noch drei Monate lang ber die Sonne hinaus, so kommt man an einen Stern, welcher Sitara heit. Sitara ist ein persarabisches...
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Sir Dominick FerrandSir Dominick FerrandThere are several objections to it, but Ill take it if youll alter it, Mr. Lockets rather curt note had said; and there was no waste of words in the postscript in which he had added: If youll come in and see...
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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 THIS work has been undertaken principally from a conviction that it is the performance of a duty which, to the best of my ability, it is incumbent on me to fulfil. Though even on this ground...
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Father and Son: A Study of Two TemperamentsFather and Son: A Study of Two TemperamentsAT the present hour, when fiction takes forms so ingenious and so specious, it is perhaps necessary to say that the following narrative, in all its parts, and so far as the punctilious attention of the writer...
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The Memoirs of Victor HugoThe Memoirs of Victor Hugo This volume of memoirs has a double characterhistorical and intimate. The life of a period, the XIX Century, is bound up in the life of a man, VICTOR HUGO. As we follow the events set forth we get the...
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The Cruise of the SnarkThe Cruise of the SnarkIt began in the swimming pool at Glen Ellen. Between swims it was our wont to come out and lie in the sand and let our skins breathe the warm air and soak in the sunshine. Roscoe was a yachtsman....
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The Friendly Road: New Adventures in ContentmentThe Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment I did not plan when I began writing these chapters to make an entire book, but only to put down the more or less unusual impressions, the events and adventures, of certain quiet pilgrimages in country roads....
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Italienische Reise — Band 2Italienische Reise — Band 2Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...
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Italienische Reise — Band 1Italienische Reise — Band 1Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...
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Briefe aus der SchweizBriefe aus der SchweizPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars...
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The Angel and the Author, and OthersThe Angel and the Author, and OthersI had a vexing dream one night, not long ago: it was about a fortnight after Christmas. I dreamt I flew out of the window in my nightshirt. I went up and up. I was glad that I...
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