Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut by Mark Twain

Page 55:

In conclusion, I wish to state, by way of advertisement, that medical colleges desiring assorted tramps for scientific purposes, either by the gross, by cord measurement, or per ton, will do well to examine the lot in my cellar before purchasing elsewhere, as these were all selected and prepared by myself, and can be had at a low rate, because I wish to clear, out my stock and get ready for the spring trade.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

June 19 - Mark the Calendar

Mark the calendar:

1528 – The Connecticut Yankee arrives in Camelot.
--Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

June 17 - Mark the Calendar

Mark the calendar:

Tom Sawyer witnesses a murder at Horse William's grave.
-- Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Opening line:

NOTICE: Persons attempting to find motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

(Famous)opening line:

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.