The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories was the final collection Twain assembled in his lifetime, and it's a momentous volume indeed, including titles that come from every part of his career. It includes "A Dog's Tale," "Was It Heaven? Or Hell?," "A Cure for the Blues," "The Curious Book," "The Californian's Tale," "A Helpless Situation," "A Telephonic Conversation," "Edward Mills and George Benton," "The Five Boons of Life," "The First Writing-Machines," "Italian without a Master," "Italian with Grammar," "A Burlesque Biography," "How to Tell a Story," "General Washington's Negro Body-Servant," "Wit Inspirations of the 'Two-Year-Olds,'" "An Entertaining Article," "A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury," "Amended Obituaries," "A Monument to Adam," "A Humane Word from Satan," "Introduction to 'The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English,'" "Advice to Little Girls," "Post-Mortem Poetry," "The Danger of Lying in Bed," "Portrait of King William III," "Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?," "Extracts from Adam's Diary," and "Eve's Diary."
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
