Download or read book Great Literature Online: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories: The Californian's Tale written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Literature Online features the full text of "The Californian's Tale," a short story from the novel "The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, " written by the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), who wrote under the name of Mark Twain. The novel was originally published in 1906. Great Literature Online also offers the full text of other works by Clemens and a brief biography of the author.