Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume I, 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 Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume I by Mark Twain. Read in English by John Greenman While the Mark Twain Project has created and released a three-volume Mark Twain autobiography with extensive annotations, in the 21st century, this two-volume autobiography was published in 1924 and contains many works never before released. It came 14 years after Twain's death and so, "speaking from the grave", he felt he could be "as frank and free and unembarrassed as a love letter". The autobiographical chapters that he published years earlier in the North American Review, were selected more for their acceptability and potential popularity than for their completely true reflection of his inner thoughts. With the publication of Mark Twain's Autobiography in 1924, the world was introduced to a much more frank and less restrained Twain than had heretofore been seen or heard. This partial Autobiography, in two volumes, consisting of about two-fifths of his known material, was compiled by a personal friend and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, who at the time had exclusive access to Twain's papers. - Summary by John Greenman and Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume I
• Author credits: Mark Twain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 13:08:26

Catalogue topics

• humor
• history
• culture
• mark twain
• autobiography
• essays
• Samuel Clemens
• writing

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 00 - INTRODUCTION BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE & PREFACE BY MARK TWAIN — 17:38
2. 01 - THE TENNESSEE LAND (Written about 1870) — 9:15
3. 02 - EARLY YEARS IN FLORIDA, MISSOURI (Written in 1877) — 8:33
4. 03 - THE GRANT DICTATIONS--1885--THE CHICAGO G. A. R. FESTIVAL — 16:08
5. 04 - GRANT AND THE CHINESE (Dictated in 1885) — 9:05
6. 05 - A CALL WITH W. D. HOWELLS ON GENERAL GRANT (Dictated in 1885) — 7:33
7. 06 - ABOUT GENERAL GRANT'S "MEMOIRS" (Dictated in 1885) — 1:01:52
8. 07 - GERHARDT AND THE GRANT BUST (Dictated in 1885) — 23:07
9. 08 - THE REVEREND DOCTOR N---- VISITS GENERAL GRANT (Dictated 1885) — 4:34
10. 09 - THE MACHINE EPISODE (Written in the closing days of 1890) — 19:21
11. 10 - CHAPTERS BEGUN IN VIENNA - EARLY DAYS (Written 1897-8) — 1:09:33
12. 11 - JANE LAMPTON CLEMENS — 24:10
13. 12 - PLAYING "BEAR"--HERRINGS--JIM WOLF AND THE CATS (Written about 1898) — 41:56
14. 13 - MACFARLANE (Written about 1898) — 8:33
15. 14 - OLD LECTURE DAYS IN BOSTON - Nasby, and others of Redpath's Lecture Bureau (Written in 1898) — 15:22
16. 15 - RALPH KEELER (Written about 1898) — 23:59
17. 16 - BEAUTIES OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE (Written in 1898. Vienna) — 4:29
18. 17 - A VIENNESE PROCESSION (Written Sunday, June 26, 1898. Kaltenleutgeben) — 13:19
19. 18 - COMMENT ON TAUTOLOGY AND GRAMMAR (Written 1898. Vienna) — 6:48
20. 19 - PRIVATE HISTORY OF A MS. THAT CAME TO GRIEF (Written in 1900) and THE LETTER and NOTES — 34:58
21. 20 - CHAPTERS ADDED IN FLORENCE (1904) - AUTHOR'S NOTE — 1:47
22. 21 - VILLA QUARTO (Florence, January, 1904) — 33:03
23. 22 - VILLA QUARTO (Continued) — 50:33
24. 23 - A MEMORY OF JOHN HAY — 14:12

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