“A True Story Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It” is one of the best-known short stories by Mark Twain (pen-name of Samuel Clemens, 1835-1910). First published in 1874, the tale is centered around the hard life of a slave family during the Civil War. “O, no, Misto C—, I hadn’t had no trouble. An’ no joy!” The ebook also contains a selection of Twain’s best aphorisms and a biographical note on the author.