A collection of short stories including "1,000,000 Bank Note" written late in Twains career when he was facing financial problems. In the title story, a smart, honest, American man through a series of accidents ends up penniless in 19th century...
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival.
In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste,...
Don Quixote is a middle-aged man living in 16th century La Mancha in Spain who is obsessed with romance novels involving chivalry. He arms himself to defend the weak and vanquish the wicked. The two-part novel is the story of his many and often...
He talks very little. Perhaps it is because he is not bright and is sensitive about it and wishes to conceal it. It is such a pity that he should feel so, for brightness is nothing. It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him...
Adam describes how Eve gets introduced into the Garden of Eden, and how he deals with this 'new creature with the long hair', an annoying creature with a penchant for naming things, which Adam could do without. He reports on Eve eating the apple...
In his adventures in several fantastic lands, Gulliver meets little people less than six inches high, giants, men who live on an island floating in air, and other creatures.
Twain, a brash young journalist with one book under his belt, was one of seventy-seven passengers on the steamship Quaker City when it left New York in June 1867, to begin ?The Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion.? As special correspondent for the...
When Gremlin first class Leroy comes to your school, things will never be the same. Johanna Hayes premier novella is what might have been produced if Lewis Carol and the Marx brothers had been room-mates. But beneath the silliness and sassy prose,...
Poor, lovely Viola has been left penniless and alone after her late husband's demise, and is forced to live with his family in their joyless home. Its occupants are nearly insufferable: Mr. Withers is a tyrannical old miser; Mrs. Withers...