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    The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2)
    The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2)
    The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2)
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    The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2)

    Written by Mark Twain

    Narrated by Elizabeth Powers

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    The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a 1906 collection of 30 comic short stories by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Published just 4 years before his death, this was the last time he chose works from throughout his career, in an effort to show the diversity of his style and the breadth and depth of his interests. (Introduction by John Greenman & Wikipedia )
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2)
    Author

    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

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