Mark Twain
82 books
Humorous Fiction
800
Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4)
Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven; his accidental misplacement; his short-lived...
1 hour 35 minutes
Humorous Fiction
802
Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
«Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven» is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story follows Captain Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven, his accidental...
1 hour 28 minutes
General Fiction
790
Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2)
In the afterlife grizzled sea captain Eli Stormfield finds himself piloting a ship to heaven. Despite a detour and some navigation errors he arrives but finds the transition to heavenly bliss a little disconcerting....
1 hour 28 minutes
Erotica
1000
Mark Twain - 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2)
Please note: this recording contains strong language. Also known simply as «1601», this is a humorously risque work by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author...
1 hour 21 minutes
Humorous Fiction
1.1K
Mark Twain - Awful German Language (version 2)
This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the...
1 hour 2 minutes
