Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews, 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: The Complete Interviews by Mark Twain. Read in English by John Greenman This collection of the 258 known, publicly-printed interviews of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Gary Scharnhorst and published by the University of Alabama Press. The interviews are in the Public Domain, and our thanks go to Gary Scharnhorst and the University of Alabama for making them available for this Public Domain audio recording. They were compiled in the University of Alabama Press book entitled "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" and are arranged, chronologically, from Twain's first authenticated interview in 1871, to his last interview in 1910. Here's how Professor Scharnhorst has characterized the interviews: Interviews 1-20 The Growth of Mark Twain's Early Reputation, 1871-1884 Interviews 21-39 The "Twins of Genius" Tour, 1884-1885 Interviews 40-59 The Best and Worst of Times, 1886-1895 Interviews 60-81 Across North America, 1895 Interviews 82-120 Across Australia, Asia, and Africa, 1895-1896 Interviews 121-151 "Ambassador at Large" and Man of Letters, 1897-1901 Interviews 152-170 Last Visit to Mississippi, 1902 Interviews 171-195 At Large, 1902-1906 Interviews 196-220 "Dean of Humorists," 1906-1907 Interviews 221-235 Visit to Oxford, 1907 Interviews 236-258 The Long Goodbye, 1907-1910 Extensive analysis (for instance how other publications interpreted identical interview sessions), notes, appendix and index are included in the printed work. - Summary by John Greenman

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
• Author credits: Mark Twain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 256
• Combined MP3 track duration: 37:51:29

Catalogue topics

• mark twain
• interviews

Opening tracks: first 24 of 256

1. 000 - Introduction — 2:58
2. 001 - Interview 1: ''Brevities'' - Dec. 21, 1871 — 1:26
3. 002 - Interview 2: ''Mark Twain as a Pedestrian,'' Boston Evening Journal, Nov. 14, 1874, page 2 — 3:29
4. 003 - Interview 3: "Mark Twain: His Recent Walking Feat," Hartford Times, Nov. 14, 1874 — 6:28
5. 004 - Interview 4: ''Political Views of a Humorist,'' New York Herald, Aug. 28th, 1876, page 3 — 8:09
6. 005 - Interview 5: ''A Connecticut Carpet-bag,'' New York World, Dec. 24, 1876, page 2 — 6:22
7. 006 - Interview 6: ''Mark Twain's Tenets,'' Boston Globe, Mar. 19, 1877, page 3, col. 2 — 7:00
8. 007 - Interview 7 - Baltimore Gazette, c. Apr. 27,1877, titled ''Mark Twain's Opinion'', New York World, Apr. 28, 1877, page 5 — 5:09
9. 008 - Interview 8: ''Mark Twain and His Chinaman,'' Garth, New York Daily Graphic, May 3, 1877, page 438 — 2:13
10. 009 - Interview 9 : ''The Start for Germany,'' New York Times, April 12, 1878, page 8 — 7:47
11. 010 - Interview 10: ''Mark Twain Interviewed,'' Richard Whieing, New York World, May 11, 1879, page 1 — 18:04
12. 011 - Interview 11: ''Mark Twain Back Again,'' New York Sun, Sep. 3, 1879, page 1 — 8:22
13. 012 - Interview 12: ''Mark Twain Home Again,'' New York Times, Sep. 3, 1879, page 8 — 8:52
14. 013 - Interview 13: ''Mark Twain's Return,'' New York Herald, Sep. 3, 1879, page 3 — 4:53
15. 014 - Interview 14: ''Mr. Twain Again with Us,'' New York World, Sep. 3, 1879, page 1 — 7:30
16. 015 - Interview 15: ''An 'Innocent Abroad': 'Mark Twain' in Montreal,'' Montreal Gazette, Nov. 28, 1881, page 3 — 7:18
17. 016 - Interview 16: ''An 'Innocent' Interviewed: Mark Twain Pays a Visit to St. Louis,'' St. Pouis Post-Dispatch, May 12, 1882, page 2 — 11:01
18. 017 - Interview 17: [Commodore] R[ollingpin], ''A Day with Mark Twain'' (May 12, 1882), Rollingpin's Humorous Illustrated Annual (New York, 1883) — 14:03
19. 018 - Interview 18: ''Mark Twain's Travels,'' St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 13, 1882, page 8 — 4:51
20. 019 - Interview 19: ''Mr. Mark Twain Excited on Seeing the Name of Capt. C.C. Duncan in Print,'' New York Times, June 10, 1883, page 1 — 12:39
21. 020 - Interview 20: ''Mark Twain and the Police,'' Boston Herald, Nov. 16, 1884 page 16 — 4:29
22. 021 - Interview 21: ''Mark twain as Lecturer,'' New York World, Nov. 20,1884, page 5 — 5:53
23. 022 - Interview 22: ''Mark Twain and the President,'' Philadelphia Press, Nov. 27, 1884, page 3 — 3:54
24. 023 - Interview 23: ''Mark Twain's Ideas: A Talk with the Humorist,'' Blatimore American, Nov. 29, 1884, page 4 — 13:09

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