How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays by Mark Twain is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

All of which is very depressing, and makes one want to renounce joking and lead a better life.

If you’ve got the pause right, she’ll fetch a dear little yelp and spring right out of her shoes.

We must be a little wary when Brander Matthews tells us that Cooper's books “reveal an extraordinary fulness of invention.”

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“From the bottom of our hearts we send our sympathy, dearest of friends.”

Necessarily the scene of the real turning-point of my life (and of yours) was the Garden of Eden.

I witnessed the funeral procession, in company with friends, from the windows of the Krantz, Vienna’s sumptuous new hotel.

In several details the parallels are quaintly exact.

“Appoint your court. I will bring a witness.”