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  2. Luck (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Luck" is an 1886 short story by Mark Twain which was first published in 1891 in Harper's Magazine. It was subsequently reprinted in 1892 in the anthology Merry Tales; the first British publication was in 1900, in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. It is one of Twain's more neglected stories, and received little critical attention ...

  3. Mark Twain - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."

  4. Sketches New and Old - Wikipedia

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    Sketches New and Old is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. All the stories are fictional except for "The Case of George Fisher." It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others.

  5. Poetry from Daily Life: For young readers intimidated by ...

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    Poems of Race, Mistakes and Friendship," which was named an NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor; "Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes and Anecdotes from A to Z," "African Town," winner of the Scott ...

  6. Advice for Good Little Girls - Wikipedia

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    Advice for Good Little Girls" is a humorous essay by Mark Twain, first published in 1865, which lists satirical pieces of advice for how young girls should behave. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain called it an early precursor to Twain's satirical youth novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn .

  7. Mark Twain bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),⁣ [1] well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called the "Great American Novel," and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

  8. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    In September 1906, Harper and Brothers created another collection of previously published short stories and essays by Mark Twain. They compiled two separate versions of this collection: a trade print issued in red cloth binding with gold cornstalks and an ongoing series for subscription book buyers who had first purchased their sets from American Publishing Company in 1899.

  9. A Literary Nightmare - Wikipedia

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    "A Literary Nightmare" is a short story written by Mark Twain in 1876. The story is about Twain's encounter with an earworm, or virus-like jingle, and how it occupies his mind for several days until he manages to "infect" another person, thus removing the jingle from his mind.