Mark Twain

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Historical Fiction

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Mark Twain - Horse's Tale

Soldier Boy is the top steed at Fort Paxton. He is Buffalo Bill’s favorite horse and has led a life of glory and honor. One day General Alison’s orphaned niece arrives and proceeds to charm every man, woman, and beast...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 49 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

493

Mark Twain - Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took this reputation so to heart that they brought up their children shielded from...

Leonard Wilson 2 hours 10 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

449

Mark Twain - Essays on Paul Bourget

Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: «What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us» and «A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget». (Summary by John Greenman)

John Greenman 1 hour 15 minutes

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Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2)

Published 1900 onward

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Mark Twain - Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2)

The Mysterious Stranger-A Romance- is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his...

John Greenman 3 hours 46 minutes

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General Fiction

490

Mark Twain - Stolen White Elephant (Version 2)

«The Stolen White Elephant» was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes...

John Greenman 51 minutes

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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summary by John Greenman)

John Greenman 1 hour 43 minutes

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General Fiction

467

Mark Twain - American Claimant

The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain and the upstart, «all men are created...

John Greenman 6 hours 42 minutes

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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2)

Erotica

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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...

John Greenman 1 hour 21 minutes

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*Non-fiction

493

Mark Twain - Old Times on the Mississippi

Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1875, this same work was published as chapters 4 through 17...

John Greenman 3 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

465

Mark Twain - What is Man? and Other Essays

«What Is Man?», published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man...

John Greenman 10 hours 37 minutes

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$30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2)

Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2)

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a 1906 collection of 30 comic short stories by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Published just 4 years before his death, this was the last time he chose works from...

John Greenman 9 hours 6 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

521

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...

Kirsten Wever 1 hour 2 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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