THE $30,000 BEQUEST AND OTHER STORIES

Mark Twain was certainly Americas greatest writer. His genius enabled him to make entertaining reading, even great literature, out of almost anything. Therefore all his collections of miscellaneous shorter works are treasure-troves of short stories, essays, autobiography, and journalistic sketches, ranging, as this one does, from a story told from the point of view of a dog, an article about the first typewriters, to the beginnings of Twains late, fantastic work, Biblical or religious fantasies in which he confronts the most profound issues of existence