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

Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume II, 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 II 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 II
• Author credits: Mark Twain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 14:06:29

Catalogue topics

• mark twain
• autobiography
• Samuel Clemens
• albert bigelow paine
• history
• humor
• essays
• culture

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 01 - New York, Tuesday, January 23, 1906 - About a meeting at Carnegie Hall, in the interest of Booker Washington's Tuskegee Institute — 29:00
2. 02 - THE CHARACTER OF MAN — 16:36
3. 03 - New York, Wednesday, January 24, 1906 - Mr. Blaine for the Presidency, Clemens's, Twichell's, Goodwin's votes for Cleveland. — 21:24
4. 04 - New York, Thursday, February 1, 1906 - Subject of January 24th continued.--Mr. Twichell's unpopular vote. — 6:50
5. 05 - New York, February 1, 1906 — 15:52
6. 06 - New York, Friday, February 2, 1906 - Subject of February first continued.--The death of Susy Clemens. Ends with mention of Dr. John Brown. — 25:38
7. 07 - New York, Monday, February 5, 1906 - Dr. John Brown continued.--Incidents connected with Susy Clemens's childhood.--Bad spelling, etc. — 32:48
8. 08 - New York, Tuesday, February 6, 1906 - Playing "The Prince and the Pauper."--Acting charades, etc. — 13:08
9. 09 - Wednesday, February 7, 1906 - Susy Clemens's biography of her father.--Mr. Clemens's opinion of critics, etc. — 21:30
10. 10 - New York, Thursday, February 8, 1906 - Susy Clemens's bio (cont.). — 24:01
11. 11 - New York, Friday, February 9, 1906 - Susy's ref. to "The Prince and the Pauper." — 18:04
12. 12 - New York, Monday, February 12, 1906 - Susy's bio cont.--Tricks played in "Tom Sawyer."--Skating on the Mississippi with Tom Nash, etc. — 18:14
13. 13 - New York, Tuesday, February 13, 1906 - Susy's bio cont.--1st meeting of Mr. Clemens and Miss Langdon.--Miss Langdon an invalid.--Doctor Newton. — 15:10
14. 14 - New York, Wednesday, February 14, 1906 - About the accident which prolonged Mr. Clemens's visit at the Langdons'. — 14:58
15. 15 - New York, Thursday, February 15, 1906 - Susy's bio cont.--Death of Mr. Langdon.--Birth of Langdon Clemens. — 12:18
16. 16 - Friday, February 16, 1906 - Susy's biography mentions little Langdon.--The change of residence from Buffalo to Hartford.--Mr. Clemens tells of the sale of his Buffalo paper. — 6:26
17. 17 - Tuesday, February 20, 1906 - About Rear-Admiral Wilkes.--And meeting Mr. Anson Burlingame in Honolulu. — 14:12
18. 18 - New York, Wednesday, February 21, 1906 - Mr. Langdon just escapes being a railway magnate. — 5:22
19. 19 - New York, Thursday, February 22, 1906 - Susy's on grandfather Langdon.--Mr. Clemens tells about Mr. Atwater, Mr. David Gray, and about meeting David Gray, Jr. — 16:05
20. 20 - Friday, February 23, 1906 - Mr. Clemens tells how he became a business man. — 10:06
21. 21 - Monday, February 26, 1906 - Susy & mother in New York.--Aunt Clara at the Everett House.--The omnibus incident in Germany.--Aunt Clara ill at Hoffman House--Clemens takes Susy to see General Grant--Clemens gives his first reading in New York--Memorial to Mr. Longfellow, and one in Washington. — 29:51
22. 22 - Monday, March 5, 1906 - Mrs. Clemens's warning when he attends the Cleveland White House .--The Paris house in 1893--also room in Villa Viviani--also dining-room at Riverdale.--Letter from Mr. Gilder regarding Mr. Cleveland's sixty-ninth birthday.--Mason. — 19:44
23. 23 - Tuesday, March 6, 1906 - Clemens makes Baby Ruth intercede in behalf of Mason, and is retained in his place.--Clemens's letter to ex-President Cleveland.--Cleveland as sheriff, in Buffalo.--As Mayor, he vetoes ordinance of railway corporation.--Clemens and Cable visit Governor Cleveland at Albany. — 14:27
24. 24 - Wednesday, March 7, 1906 - Susy's bio cont.--Susy and her father go over Brooklyn Bridge.--On the way to Vassar, discuss German profanity.--Clemens tells of German nurse.--Clemens's opinion of girls.--Talks to Barnard girls this afternoon. — 13:47

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