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The Stolen White Elephant

by Mark Twain

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A royal gift becomes an elaborate police affair when a white elephant disappears from its quarters in Jersey City. The official entrusted with taking the animal from Siam to the British Queen turns to Inspector Blunt in New York. Blunt answers his alarm with solemn questions, detailed measurements, printed notices and a substantial reward. Even the elephant's extraordinary appetite must be recorded with professional precision.

Mark Twain's 1882 short story builds its comedy around the gap between the inspector's confidence and the increasingly confused reports arriving by telegram. Missing bottles, a vanished haystack and holes left by a farmer all become evidence in a search that spreads across several states. The courteous narrator takes the investigation seriously, giving the official language room to make its own absurdity apparent.

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".

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Book facts

First published
1882
Reading time
About 30 minutes
Pages
22
Language
English
Genre
Satire
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
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Kristen McQuillin