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Mark Twain - Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2)

Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel Twain co-wrote (C.D. Warner was a good friend and neighbor of the Clemens family in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their...

John Greenman 16 hours 9 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass law, history, science, travel, philosophy,...

Bellona Times and 8 more 5 hours 56 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Humorous Fiction

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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Humorous Fiction

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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Historical Fiction

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Mark Twain - Horse's Tale (Version 2)

A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. With a...

John Greenman 1 hour 54 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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