How To Tell A Story and other essays: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

How To Tell A Story and other essays, 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 How To Tell A Story and other essays by Mark Twain. Read in English by John Greenman The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. Mark Twain published several collections of his short stories and essays. This collection, like the others, dramatically demonstrates the eclectic nature of his work and the depth of his humanistic thinking. Each essay stands alone. Listeners will find many instances where modern times come to mind. (John Greenman)

Recording facts

• Recording title: How To Tell A Story and other essays
• Author credits: Mark Twain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 12:12:50

Catalogue topics

• mark twain
• essays by mark twain

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 - How To Tell a Story — 19:01
2. 02 - Chapter 2 - In Defence of Harriet Shelley - Part 1 — 43:11
3. 03 - Chapter 2 - In Defence of Harriet Shelley - Part 2 — 44:12
4. 04 - Chapter 2 - In Defence of Harriet Shelley - Part 3 — 58:02
5. 05 - Chapter 3 - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences — 43:59
6. 06 - Chapter 4 - Travelling With a Reformer — 47:09
7. 07 - Chapter 5 - Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story — 32:27
8. 08 - Chapter 6 - Mental Telegraphy Again — 21:49
9. 09 - Chapter 7 - What Paul Bourget Thinks Of Us — 55:11
10. 10 - Chapter 8 - A Little Note To M. Paul Bourget — 44:19
11. 11 - Chapter 9 - The Invalid's Story — 18:38
12. 12 - Chapter 10 - The Captain's Story — 13:54
13. 13 - Chapter 11 - Stirring Times in Austria - Part 1 - The Government In The Frying Pan — 23:32
14. 14 - Chapter 11 - Stirring Times in Austria - Part 2 - A Memorable Sitting — 38:11
15. 15 - Chapter 11 - Stirring Times in Austria - Part 3 - Curious Parliamentary Etiquette — 31:38
16. 16 - Chapter 11 - Stirring Times in Austria Part 4 - The Historic Climax — 17:53
17. 17 - Chapter 12 - Concerning the Jews - (special thanks to Eberhard Schneider of Altlußheim, Germany) — 1:04:57
18. 18 - Chapter 13 - From the "London Times" of 1904 — 35:44
19. 19 - Chapter 14 - At the Appetite Cure — 38:19
20. 20 - Chapter 15 - In Memoriam — 5:30
21. 21 - Chapter 16 - Mark Twain: A Biological Sketch — 35:13

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