Complete Essays of Mark Twain
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: September 4, 1985
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780385065900
First sentence: Being a stranger, it would be immodest and unbecoming in me to suddenly and violently assume the associate editorship of the Buffalo Express without a single explanatory word of comfort or encouragement to the unoffending patrons of the paper, who are about to be exposed to constant attacks of my wisdom and learning.