| The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy & Magic Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author), Casil, Amy Sterling (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 159818332X ISBN-13: 9781598183320 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.16 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories" was the final collection Twain assembled in his lifetime, and it's a momentous volume indeed, including titles that come from every part of his career. It includes "A Dog's Tale," "Was It Heaven? Or Hell?," "A Cure for the Blues," "The Curious Book," "The Californian's Tale," "A Helpless Situation," "A Telephonic Conversation," "Edward Mills and George Benton," "The Five Boons of Life," "The First Writing-Machines," "Italian without a Master," "Italian with Grammar," "A Burlesque Biography," "How to Tell a Story," "General Washington's Negro Body-Servant," "Wit Inspirations of the 'Two-Year-Olds, '" "An Entertaining Article," "A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury," "Amended Obituaries," "A Monument to Adam," "A Humane Word from Satan," "Introduction to 'The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English, '" "Advice to Little Girls," "Post-Mortem Poetry," "The Danger of Lying in Bed," "Portrait of King William III," "Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?," "Extracts from Adam's Diary," and "Eve's Diary." |
Contributor Bio(s): Casil, Amy Sterling: - Amy Sterling Casil is a 2002 Nebula Award nominee and recipient of other awards and recognition for her short science fiction and fantasy, which has appeared in publications ranging from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction to Zoetrope. She is the author of 28 nonfiction books, over a hundred short stories, three fiction and poetry collections, and three novels. Amy is a founding member and treasurer of Book View Café and former treasurer of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, and teaches writing and composition at Saddleback College. She is the founder of Chameleon Publishing.Twain, Mark: - "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel." Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so." |