Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories

by Mark Twain

Overview

It was well along in the forenoon of a bitter winter's day The town of Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow that was newly fallen The customary bustle in the streets was wanting. One could look long distances down them and see nothing but a dead-white emptiness, with silence to match. Of course I do not mean that you could see the silence - no, you could only hear it The sidewalks were merely long, deep ditches, with steep snow walls on either side Here and there you might hear the faint, far scrape of a wooden shovel, and if you were quick enough you might catch a glimpse of a distant black figure stooping and disappearing in one of those ditches, and reappearing the next moment with a motion which you would know meant the heaving out of a shovelful of snow But you needed to be quick, for that black figure would not linger, but would soon drop that shovel and scud for the house, thrashing itself with its arms to warm them Yes, it was too venomously cold for snow-shovelers or anybody else to stay out long.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788728399163
Publisher:	Saga Egmont International
Publication date:	02/09/2023
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	58
File size:	487 KB

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut

Table of Contents

Contents: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz, Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying, About Magnanimous-Incident Literature, The Grateful Poodle, The Benevolent Author, The Grateful Husband, Punch, Brothers, Punch, The Great Revolution In Pitcairn, The Canvasser's Tale, An Encounter With An Interviewer, Paris Notes, Legend Of Sagenfeld, In Germany, Speech On The Babies, Speech On The Weather, Concerning The American Language Rogers