Five Boons of Life, the (1902) [Short Story]
by Mark Twain
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Mark Twain's story about a person allowed to choose between the five boons of life: fame, love, riches, pleasure, and death.
Appears in Spells of Enchantment.
Original title: The Five Boons of Life
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fairy Tales & Folklore→ Original Creations
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Spells of Enchantment (1991) [Anthology]
Authors: L. Frank Baum
, Philip K. Dick
, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, August Strindberg
, Mark Twain
, Oscar Wilde
, William Butler Yeats
, Anatole France
, Voltaire
, Stanislaw Lem
, Tanith Lee
, Lord Dunsany
, Robin McKinley
, Howard Pyle
, Jane Yolen
, Italo Calvino
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, Rainer Maria Rilke
, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
, Hermann Hesse
, Angela Carter
, James Thurber
, George MacDonald
, Michael de Larrabeiti
, Laurence Housman
, Erich Kästner
, Johann Karl August Musäus
, Frank R. Stockton
, E. T. A. Hoffmann
, Gottfried Keller
, Georg Kaiser
, Sylvia Townsend Warner
, Mary de Morgan
, Alfred Döblin
, Theodor Storm
, Naomi Mitchison
, Hans Christian Andersen
, Guillaume Apollinaire
, Apuleius
, Ingeborg Bachmann
, Giambattista Basile
, Thomas Crofton Croker
, Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy
, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force
, Carl Ewald
, Antoine Galland
, Wilhelm Carl Grimm
, Franz Hessel
, Hugo von Hofmannsthal
, Janosch
, Günter Kunert
, Rosemarie Künzler
, Marie-Jean L'Héritier
, Christoph Meckel
, Mynona
, Novalis
, Charles Perrault
, Henri Pourrat
, Kurt Schwitters
, Giovanni Straparola
, Ludwig Tieck
, Michel Tournier
, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
, Christoph Martin Wieland
, Robert Coover
Little Book of Horrors, the (1992) [Anthology]
Authors: Charles Dickens
, Ambrose Bierce
, Roald Dahl
, F. Scott Fitzgerald
, Franz Kafka
, Mark Twain
, William Butler Yeats
, Joe R. Lansdale
, Raymond Chandler
, Stephen Gallagher
, Robert Bloch
, Richard Matheson
, Ed Bryant
, Martin Gardner
, Fredric Brown
, Robert T. Kurosaka
, Dannie Plachta
, Kingsley Amis
, Jeffry Scott
, Richard Christian Matheson
, Jessica Amanda Salmonson
, Richard Middleton
, Tommaso Landolfi
, Jean Cocteau
, Lafcadio Hearn
, John Lennon
, Edward Gorey
, William Plomer
, Ornella Volta
, James Malcolm Rymer
, Gina Haldane
, W.R. Hodder
, Aubrey Davidson
, Alistair Sampson
, Edward Lauterbach
, Priscilla Marron
, M.A. Lyon
, Liao Chai
, Alphonse Allais
, Gerald Atkins
, K.C. Mann
, Gloria Orlick
, Arthur L. Samuels
, Derek Pell
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