The Quest of The Great Ruby...and my soul shall lie forever under the curse, engulfed and hidden as deeply as the Great Ruby beneath the shadow of Dead Man's ...
In this anti-religious tale, Twain denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an after-life, and even reality itself. As the Stranger in the story a...
Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosaic, decides to go in search of adventure and fame to prove himself worthy of h...