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The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
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A book that captures the many facets of Mark Twain's work./b>

“Had I never loved, I never would have been unhappy.” -Mark Twain

This is a collection of thirty comic short stories that follow various periods of Twain’s writing career.
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LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 20, 2016
ISBN9781681956305
Author

Mark Twain

Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein are members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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