Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92, credited to Mark Twain, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92 by Mark Twain. Read in English by John Greenman This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, when Twain took his family to Europe in June of 1891, he left with the knowledge that the McClure Syndicate and W. M. Laffan of the New York Sun would pay him one thousand dollars each for six travel letters. Twain’s letters eventually appeared in numerous papers including the Chicago Sunday Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe in addition to the New York Sun. Readers of his “The Innocents Abroad” and “A Tramp Abroad” will remember his knack of viewing his discoveries with satirical and ironic twists. - Summary by John Greenman and Barbara Schmidt

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92
• Author credits: Mark Twain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 3:39:01

Catalogue topics

• humor
• travel
• mark twain
• Samuel Clemens

Track guide

1. 01 - Mark Twain at Aix-Les Bains — 41:39
2. 02 - Mark Twain at Bayreuth — 38:52
3. 03 - Playing the Courier — 36:36
4. 04 - An Austrian Health Factory — 35:52
5. 05 - Mark Twain in the Cradle of Liberty — 29:17
6. 06 - The Chicago of Europe — 36:45

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