Mark Twain

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Mark Twain - Extracts from Adam's Diary

Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in the “GARDEN-OF-EDEN” to their fall from grace and the events thereafter. Learn...

Mr. Baby Man 24 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Awful German Language

If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious. Published as Appendix D from Twain’s 1880 book A Tramp Abroad , this comedic gem outlines the...

Rainer 1 hour 3 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri,...

John Greenman 6 hours 46 minutes

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Travel Fiction

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Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad

Writer/entertainer Garrison Keillor (A Prairie Home Companion) on “The Innocents Abroad”: “…one of the best selling travel books of all time.” (The Writer’s Almanac, June 8, 2012) When you dive into Mark Twain’s...

John Greenman 19 hours 36 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Mark Twain - Stolen White Elephant

In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to...

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Children's Fiction

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Mark Twain - Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives...

John Greenman 6 hours 55 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Mark Twain - Eve’s Diary

Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world around her and… Adam! The following is an extract from Adam: “She is all...

Esther 38 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Chapters from my Autobiography

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but...

John Greenman 10 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

Mark Twain - Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Come and hear the strange tail of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds himself transported to the court of the legendary King Arthur (as the title...

Steve Andersen 13 hours 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is one of the truly great American novels, beloved by children, adults, and literary critics alike. The book tells the story of “Huck” Finn (first introduced as...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg 10 hours 42 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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