Mark Twain

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature in Yale, the Professor of English Literature in Columbia, and Wilkie Collins to deliver opinions on Cooper's literature without having read some of it. It would have been much more decorous to keep silent and let persons...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Book I of this volume occupies a quarter or a third of the volume, and consists of matter written about four years ago, but not hitherto published in book form. It contained errors of judgment and of fact. I have now corrected these to the best of my...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. [Footnote: Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts - even to the public confession of the accused. I take them from an old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors, and transfer the scenes to...