The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

Twain's first popular collection, gathered in 1875 from his early newspaper years. Includes The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the sketch that made him famous coast to coast.

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Twain's 1893 collection led by the famous tale of a penniless American handed a million-pound note in London. Eleven late-career sketches on luck, manners, and the comedy of mistaken status.

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Eden seen from Adam's bewildered point of view. The 1893 sketch where Twain has the first man take notes on a noisy newcomer who keeps naming things.

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The companion piece to Extracts from Adam's Diary, told from Eve's side. Twain's 1905 sketch on Eden, naming, curiosity, and the woman who wonders why the man is so reluctant to talk.

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A sea captain dies, races a comet across the cosmos, and arrives at a heaven nothing like the Sunday-school version. Twain's posthumously expanded 1909 satire on the afterlife.

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