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...
This is probably where Conan Doyle got his idea for Sherlock Holmes: the atrocity of this murder, the youth and beauty of the victim, and above all, her previ...
This story centers on the discovery of a machine capable of disintegrating objects and reforming them as they were. This short story is a part of the "Challen...