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Those Extraordinary Twins : 9781540430045
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Those Extraordinary Twins : 9781540430045
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, that it was two stories in one. It took me months to make that discovery. I carried the manuscript back and forth across the Atlantic two or three times, and read it and studied over it on shipboard; and at last I saw where the difficulty lay. I had no further trouble. I pulled one of the stories out by the roots, and left the other one--a kind of literary Caesarean operation. Would the reader care to know something about the story which I pulled out? He has been told many a time how the born-and-trained novelist works. Won't he let me round and complete his knowledge by telling him how the jack-leg does it? Originally the story was called "Those Extraordinary Twins." I meant to make it very short. I had seen a picture of a youthful Italian "freak" or "freaks" which was--or which were--on exhibition in our cities--a combination consisting of two heads and four arms joined to a single body and a single pair of legs--and I thought I would write an extravagantly fantastic little story with this
| Author: Mark Twain |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Nov 16, 2016 |
| Number of Pages: 78 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1540430049 |
| ISBN-13: 9781540430045 |
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