collection contains:

-The £1,000,000 Bank-Note

-Mental Telegraphy

-A Cure for the Blues

-The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant

-About all Kinds of Ships

-Playing Courier

-The German Chicago

-A Petition to the Queen of England

-A Majestic Literary Fossil

This Mark Twain short story collection was published in 1893, in a disastrous decade for the United States, a time marked by doubt and waning optimism, rapid immigration, labor problems, and the rise of political violence and social protest.