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The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The collection includes the titular story alongside earlier works like "Advice to Young Girls" and "A Burlesque Biography.

"The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories" by Mark Twain is a collection of thirty comic short stories. The collection includes the titular story alongside earlier works like "Advice to Young Girls" and "A Burlesque Biography.

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Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of its own. Rank was unknown in Lakeside—unconfessed, anyway; everybody knew everybody and his dog, and a sociable friendliness was the prevailing atmosphere.

Saladin Foster was book-keeper in the principal store, and the only high-salaried man of his profession in Lakeside. He was thirty-five years old, now; he had served that store for fourteen years; he had begun in his marriage-week at four hundred dollars a year, and had climbed steadily up, a hundred dollars a year, for four years; from that time forth his wage had remained eight hundred—a handsome figure indeed, and everybody conceded that he was worth it.

Contents

  1. 01The $30,000 Bequest
  2. 02Chapter I
  3. 03Chapter II
  4. 04Chapter III
  5. 05Chapter IV
  6. 06Chapter V
  7. 07Chapter VI
  8. 08Chapter VII
  9. 09Chapter VIII
  10. 10A Dog's Tale
  11. 11Chapter I
  12. 12Chapter II
  13. 13Chapter III
  14. 14Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
  15. 15Chapter I
  16. 16Chapter II
  17. 17Chapter III
  18. 18Chapter IV
  19. 19Chapter V
  20. 20Chapter VI
  21. 21Chapter VII
  22. 22Chapter VIII
  23. 23Chapter IX
  24. 24Chapter X
  25. 25A Cure for the Blues
  26. 26The Curious Book
  27. 27The Californian's Tale
  28. 28A Helpless Situation
  29. 29A Telephonic Conversation
  30. 30Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
  31. 31The Five Boons of Life
  32. 32Chapter I
  33. 33Chapter II
  34. 34Chapter III
  35. 35Chapter IV
  36. 36Chapter V
  37. 37The First Writing-Machines
  38. 38Italian Without a Master
  39. 39Italian with Grammar
  40. 40A Burlesque Biography
  41. 41How to Tell a Story
  42. 42General Washington's Negro Body-Servant
  43. 43Wit Inspirations of the “Two-Year-Olds”
  44. 44An Entertaining Article
  45. 45A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
  46. 46Amended Obituaries
  47. 47A Monument to Adam
  48. 48A Humane Word from Satan
  49. 49Introduction to “the New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English”
  50. 50Advice to Little Girls
  51. 51Post-Mortem Poetry (1)
  52. 52The Danger of Lying in Bed
  53. 53Portrait of King William III
  54. 54Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
  55. 55Extracts from Adam's Diary
  56. 56Eve's Diary
  57. 57Extract from Adam's Diary

About this edition

Author
Mark Twain
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
262 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers