The $30,000 bequest and other stories
By: Mark Twain ; foreword, Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; introduction, Frederick Busch ; afterword, Judith Yaross Lee.
Series: The Oxford Mark Twain
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Humorous stories, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Other titles: Thirty thousand dollar bequest and other stories
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The 30,000 dollars bequest --; title: A dog's tale --; title: Was it heaven? or hell? --; title: The Californian's tale --; title: A helpless situation --; title: A telephonic conversation --; title: Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale --; title: Saint Joan of Arc --; title: The five boons of life --; title: The first writing-machines --; title: Italian without a master --; title: Italian with grammar --; title: A burlesque biography --; title: General Washington's negro body-servant --; title: Wit inspirations of the "two-year-olds" --; title: An entertaining article --; title: A letter to the Secretary of the Treasury --; title: Amended obituaries --; title: A monument to Adam --; title: A humane word from Satan --; title: Introduction to "The new guide of the conversation in Portuguese and English --; title: Advice to little girls --; title: Post-mortem poetry --; title: A deception --; title: The danger of lying in bed --; title: Portrait of King William III --; title: Does the race of man love a lord? --; title: Eve's diary --; title: The invalid's story --; title: The captain's story --; title: Mark Twain: a biographical sketch --; title: In memoriam --; title: The belated Russian passport --; title: Two little tales. Diplomatic pay and clothes --; title: Extracts from Adam's Diary --; title: The death disk --; title: A double-barreled detective story.