Moments With Mark Twain: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Moments With Mark Twain, credited to Mark Twain; Albert Bigelow Paine, 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 Moments With Mark Twain by Mark Twain; Albert Bigelow Paine. Read in English by Lee Smalley These selections from the works of Mark Twain are presented in chronological order. They include the memorable whitewashing of the fence in "Tom Sawyer", events preceding the Mississippi River raft journey in "Huckleberry Finn", a dark moment during the exchange of identities in “The Prince and the Pauper”, and reflections of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”. A critic wrote of another excerpt concerning a feud, "...as dramatic and powerful an episode as I know in modern literature." Also included are comments about travel abroad, Joan of Arc, a generous helping of Twain’s renowned quips, and mortality. (Lee Smalley)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Moments With Mark Twain
• Author credits: Mark Twain; Albert Bigelow Paine
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 6:53:30

Catalogue topics

• travel
• mark twain
• Joan of Arc
• tom sawyer
• mortality
• huckleberry finn
• huck finn
• quips

Track guide

1. 01 - Forward and Chapter 1 from “Sketches New and Old” — 9:28
2. 02 - Chapter 2 Part 1 from “The Innocents Abroad” — 17:50
3. 03 - Chapter 2 Part 2 from "The Innocents Abroad" — 28:06
4. 04 - Chapter 2 Part 3 from "The Innocents Abroad" — 29:43
5. 05 - Chapter 3 Part 1 from "Roughing It" — 22:09
6. 06 - Chapter 3 Part 2 from "Roughing It" — 13:03
7. 07 - Chapter 3 Part 3 from "Roughing It" — 26:34
8. 08 - Chapter 4 from "The Gilded Age" — 16:43
9. 09 - Chapter 5 from "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and Chapter 6 from "The Stolen White Elephant" — 23:47
10. 10 - Chapter 7 Part 1 from "A Tramp Abroad" — 18:23
11. 11 - Chapter 7 Part 2 from "A Tramp Abroad" — 16:20
12. 12 - Chapter 8 from "Life on the Mississippi" — 35:15
13. 13 - Chapter 9 from "The Prince and the Pauper" — 24:26
14. 14 - Chapter 10 from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — 31:11
15. 15 - Chapter 11 from "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" — 28:23
16. 16 - Chapter 12 from "Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion", Chapter 13 from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar", and Chapter 14 from "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" — 22:29
17. 17 - Chapter 15 from "The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" and Chapter 16 from "Saint Joan of Arc" — 17:03
18. 18 - Chapter 17 from "Following the Equator", Chapter 18 from "Concerning the Jews", and Chapter 19 from "Christian Science" — 17:52
19. 19 - Chapter 20 from "Italian Without a Master", Chapter 21 from "Eve's Diary", Chapter 22 from "Miscellaneous", Chapter 23 from "The Death of Jean", and Chapter 24 from "One of His Latest Memoranda" — 14:44

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