Mark Twain and the Happy Island: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Mark Twain and the Happy Island by Elizabeth Wallace: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 13 original MP3 tracks, 2:23:59 running time and a link to listen.
Mark Twain and the Happy Island, credited to Elizabeth Wallace, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Mark Twain and the Happy Island by Elizabeth Wallace. Read in English by John Greenman This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace and Twain met in Bermuda in 1908, became fast friends, and shared time together on the island and regular correspondence until 6 weeks before Twain's death. According to one academician, "Wallace’s deep affection for Twain is evident in her writings, so she also may have wished to burnish his legacy. As a result, Happy Island is a popular treatment in a breezy, occasionally sentimental style. It portrays Twain as a fun and caring friend but only hints at weightier matters." - Summary by John Greenman
Recording facts
- Recording title: Mark Twain and the Happy Island
- Author credits: Elizabeth Wallace
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 13
- Listed recording duration: 2:23:59
Catalogue topics
- mark twain
- Samuel Clemens
- Bermuda
- elizabeth wallace
Track guide
- 01 - I. The Sign of the Shell — 10:20
- 02 - II. How history May Be Taught — 8:47
- 03 - III. Some Literary Gossip — 9:37
- 04 - IV. Spanish Point — 14:23
- 05 - V. The Island Without Mark Twain — 10:41
- 06 - VI. The Return — 8:46
- 07 - VII. Battleships and Society — 9:23
- 08 - VIII. Mark Twain's Aquarium — 8:18
- 09 - IX. Odds and Ends — 7:44
- 10 - X. The King and Kipling — 10:18
- 11 - XI. Stormfield — 10:30
- 12 - XII. Stormfield, Happily Continued — 10:14
- 13 - XIII. Letters — 24:58
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