Colonel Mulberry Sellers, the moonshiny schemer of The Gilded Age, now believes himself the rightful Earl of Rossmore, while the actual heir, Viscount Berkeley, sails for America resolved to renounce his title and live as a common man. Mistaken identities, a crackpot inventor’s projects and a Washington household of hangers-on follow.
Twain’s 1892 farce opens by banishing all weather to an appendix, and the jokes rarely let up after that. Download the free EPUB.