"The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories," published in 1906, is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The st

Reproduction of the original: The $30,000 Bequest and other Stories by Mark Twain

For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American wr

Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.