『In Defence of Harriet Shelley』is a free novelette e-book of Mark Twain available on Project Gutenberg. It has 14,582 words and may take about 1h to read.
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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...
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