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    The Stolen White Elephant
    The Stolen White Elephant
    The Stolen White Elephant
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    The Stolen White Elephant

    By Mark Twain

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Mark Twain

    Victor Fischer and Lin Salamo are both members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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