Christian Science: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Christian Science, credited to Mark Twain, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Christian Science by Mark Twain. Read in English by John Greenman Christian Science is a 1907 collection of essays Mark Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910). He called her, according to American writer Caroline Fraser, "[g]rasping, sordid, penurious, famishing for everything she sees—money, power, glory—vain, untruthful, jealous, despotic, arrogant, insolent, pitiless where thinkers and hypnotists are concerned, illiterate, shallow, incapable of reasoning outside of commercial lines, immeasurably selfish." - Summary by Wikipedia, edited by John Greenman

Recording facts

• Recording title: Christian Science
• Author credits: Mark Twain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 8:01:20

Catalogue topics

• mark twain
• Samuel Clemens
• mary baker eddy
• christian science

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - PREFACE & BOOK I - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE - CHAPTER I VIENNA 1899 — 6:05
2. 02 - BOOK 1 - CHAPTER II — 24:48
3. 03 - BOOK 1 - CHAPTER III — 12:16
4. 04 - BOOK 1 - CHAPTER IV — 7:24
5. 05 - BOOK 1 - CHAPTER V — 10:30
6. 06 - BOOK 1 - CHAPTER VI — 28:44
7. 07 - BOOK 1 - CHAPTER VII — 27:07
8. 08 - BOOK 1 - CHAPTER VIII — 4:27
9. 09 - BOOK 1 - CHAPTER IX — 13:11
10. 10 - BOOK II - PREFACE & CHAPTER I — 15:00
11. 11 - BOOK II - CHAPTER II — 21:15
12. 12 - BOOK II - CHAPTER III — 10:27
13. 13 - BOOK II - CHAPTER IV & POSTSCRIPT — 13:35
14. 14 - BOOK II - CHAPTER V & SUMMARY — 5:59
15. 15 - BOOK II - CHAPTER VI — 13:49
16. 16 - BOOK II - CHAPTER VII - PART ONE — 58:26
17. 17 - BOOK II - CHAPTER VII - PART TWO — 28:54
18. 18 - BOOK II - CHAPTER VIII — 40:08
19. 19 - BOOK II - CHAPTER IX — 1:54
20. 20 - BOOK II - CHAPTER X — 14:49
21. 21 - BOOK II - CHAPTER XI — 0:51
22. 22 - BOOK II - CHAPTER XII — 5:37
23. 23 - BOOK II - CHAPTER XIII — 2:42
24. 24 - BOOK II - CHAPTER XIV — 1:34

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