Produced by David Widger FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD BY MARK TWAIN SAMUEL L. CLEMENS HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT THIS BOOK Is affectionately inscribed to MY YOUNG FRIEND HARRY ROGERS WITH RECOGNITION OF WHAT HE IS, AND APPREHENSION OF WHAT HE MAY BECOME UNLESS HE FORM HIMSELF A LITTLE MORE CLOSELY UPON THE MODEL
Following the Equator, Part 1 by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Produced by David Widger FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD BY MARK TWAIN SAMUEL L. CLEMENS HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT THIS BOOK Is affectionately inscribed to MY YOUNG FRIEND HARRY ROGERS WITH RECOGNITION OF WHAT HE IS, AND APPREHENSION OF WHAT HE MAY BECOME UNLESS HE FORM HIMSELF A LITTLE MORE CLOSELY UPON THE MODEL
Following the Equator, Part 2 by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Produced by David Widger FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD BY MARK TWAIN SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Part 2 CHAPTER IX. It is your human environment that makes climate. –Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Sept. 15–Night. Close to Australia now. Sydney 50 miles distant. That note recalls an experience. The passengers were sent for, to
Following the Equator, Part 3 by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Produced by David Widger FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD BY MARK TWAIN SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Part 3 CHAPTER XX. It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Following the Equator, Part 4 by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Produced by David Widger FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD BY MARK TWAIN SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Part 4 CHAPTER XXX. Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand. –Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. We spent part of an afternoon and a night at
Following the Equator, Part 5 by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Produced by David Widger FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD BY MARK TWAIN SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Part 5 CHAPTER XXXIX. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean. –Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. You soon find your long-ago dreams of India rising in a sort of vague and luscious
Following the Equator, Part 6 by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Produced by David Widger FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD BY MARK TWAIN SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Part 6 CHAPTER LI. Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. –Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Yes, the city of Benares is in effect just
Following the Equator, Part 7 by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Produced by David Widger FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD BY MARK TWAIN SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Part 7 CHAPTER LXI. In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards. –Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Suppose we applied no more ingenuity to the instruction of deaf and dumb
Following the Equator by Mark Twain
This etext was produced by David Widger FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD BY MARK TWAIN SAMUEL L. CLEMENS HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT THE AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY MDCCCXCVIII COPYRIGHT 1897 BY OLIVIA L. CLEMENS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FORTIETH THOUSAND THIS BOOK Is affectionately inscribed to MY YOUNG FRIEND HARRY ROGERS WITH RECOGNITION OF WHAT HE
Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again by Mark Twain
This etext was produced by David Widger GOLDSMITH’S FRIEND ABROAD AGAIN by Mark Twain NOTE.–No experience is set down in the following letters which had to be invented. Fancy is not needed to give variety to the history of a Chinaman’s sojourn in America. Plain fact is amply sufficient. LETTER I SHANGHAI, 18–. DEAR CHING-FOO:
In Defense of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain
This etext was produced by David Widger IN DEFENSE OF HARRIET SHELLEY by Mark Twain I I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when I might have been living
Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain
IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY CHAPTER I Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found which deal with “Claimants”–claimants historically notorious: Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, Claimant; Louis