The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches

Mark Twain

CHAPTER I. Civilizing Huck.--Miss Watson.--Tom Sawyer Waits.

Mark Twain

CHAPTER I. Y-o-u-u Tom-Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty--Tom Practices Music--The Challenge--A Private Entrance CHAPTER II. Strong Temptations--Strategic Movements--The Innocents Beguiled CHAPTER...

Mark Twain

CHAPTER I. Popular Talk of the Excursion--Programme of the Trip--Duly Ticketed for the Excursion--Defection of the Celebrities CHAPTER II. Grand Preparations--An Imp...

Mark Twain

  Justice and Retribution.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.