Mark Twain

"The Stolen White Elephant" is a short story written by Mark Twain and published in 1882 by James R. Osgood. In this detective mystery, a Siamese white elephant, en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it …

La banconota da un milione di sterline è un racconto dell'autore americano Mark Twain. La storia è ambientata nella Londra vittoriana, ove due ricchissimi, eccentrici fratelli Oliver e Roderick Montpelier, danno allo squattrinato protagonista della storia, Henry Adams, un milione di sterline nella forma di un'unica, …

The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race". Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each is …