The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories
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The $30,000 Bequest, pt 1
35:37 -
The $30,000 Bequest, pt 2
37:17 -
A Dog's Tale
25:47 -
Was it Heaven? Or Hell?
45:34 -
A Cure for the Blues
50:02 -
The Curious Book, pt 1
69:06 -
The Curious Book, pt 2
42:49 -
The Californian's Tale
19:12 -
A Helpless Situation
13:23 -
A Telephonic Conversation
6:51 -
Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
16:26 -
The Five Boons of Life
5:56 -
The First Writing-Machines
7:43 -
Italian Without a Master
16:44 -
Italian With Grammar
17:35 -
A Burlesque Biography
15:00 -
How to Tell a Story
14:54 -
General Washington's Negro Body-Servant
10:19 -
Wit Inspirations of the 'Two-Year-Olds'
6:58 -
An Entertaining Article
19:52 -
A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
1:33 -
Amended Obituaries
4:49 -
A Monument to Adam
4:58 -
A Humane Word from Satan
3:10 -
Introduction to 'The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English'
7:08 -
Advice to Little Girls
2:50 -
Post-Mortem Poetry
11:29 -
The Danger of Lying in Bed
8:48 -
Portrait of King William III
5:37 -
Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
28:20 -
Extracts from Adam's Diary
27:01 -
Eve's Diary
24:18 -
Extract from Adam's Diary
16:27
The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories (1906) is a public domain work.
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Saladin and Electra Foster have built a comfortable family life in Lakeside through steady wages, careful saving and a productive garden. Then a distant relative promises them thirty thousand dollars, with the peculiar condition that they must show no interest in the gift while he lives. Their attention slips from work and children to calculations of future riches. Mark Twain follows the distance between their practical habits and the grand plans that suddenly fill their evenings.
The collection ranges beyond this household comedy into stories and sketches about conversation, language learning, writing machines and the telling of stories. Another passage follows a visitor through a carefully furnished home, where his host delights in every sign of his wife's care. These small observations give the volume a texture of everyday speech and domestic detail. Readers can find both financial fantasy and quieter scenes of affection among its varied pieces.
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- Mark Twain
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
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- American Classics
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