Complete and unabridged, with 35 full-page plates by Thomas Cole, William Hogarth and Vilhelm Hammershøi. A small-town couple learn they are named in the will of a distant relative for thirty thousand dollars, and spend the money, in imagination, many times over before the will is read. Twain wrote it late, after his own speculations had cost him a fortune and a lecture tour to pay it back, and the title story is the coldest thing he ever did with money. The other tales here range from broad farce to the eerie, and share one subject: what people will believe when it pays them to. Thirty-five plates of home, work and the writing life by Eastman Johnson and Thomas Eakins accompany the text, matching Twain's small-town world where money is imagined, counted and believed.