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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. 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.

  4. Mark Twain - Wikipedia

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    [201] The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain", meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]"; that is, "The water is 12 feet (3.7 m) deep and it is safe to pass." Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In Life on the Mississippi, Twain wrote:

  5. 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).

  6. Merry Tales - Wikipedia

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    Print: Pages: 209: Merry Tales is a short volume with sketches by Mark Twain, ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...

  7. A Dog's Tale - Wikipedia

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    "A Dog's Tale" is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Still later in 1904 it was expanded into a book published by Harper & Brothers.

  8. 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.

  9. Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance

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    Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance is an 1871 book by American author Mark Twain.Published by Sheldon & Co. in 1871, the book consists of two short stories: "A Burlesque Autobiography", which first appeared in Twain's Memoranda contributions to The Galaxy, and "First Romance", which originally appeared in The Express in 1870.