Sketches New and Old: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sketches New and Old, 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

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Sketches New and Old, by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, followed by a French translation (read here by Caroline Mittler) which Twain re-translated into English, showing how the French translation of his work was "badly flawed." In many of these sketches, Twain shows his talent for outrageous and hilarious inventiveness, often in reaction to current events. (Summary by John Greenman)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sketches New and Old
• Author credits: Mark Twain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 64
• Listed recording duration: 10:33:53

Catalogue topics

• Humor
• short stories
• Samuel Clemens

Opening tracks: first 24 of 64

1. 01 Chapter Preface & My Watch — 8:08
2. 02 Chapter 2 Political Economy — 14:49
3. 03 Chapter 3 The Jumping Frog — 43:08
4. 04 Chapter 4 Journalism in Ten — 14:20
5. 05 Chapter 5 The Story of the Bad Little Boy — 7:53
6. 06 Chapter 6 The Story of the Good Little Boy — 10:38
7. 07 Chapter 7 A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore — 1:50
8. 08 Chapter 8 Niagara — 16:09
9. 09 Chapter 9 Answers to Correspondents — 21:50
10. 10 Chapter 10 To Raise Poultry — 6:18
11. 11 Chapter 11 Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup — 14:24
12. 12 Chapter 12 My First Literary Venture — 5:30
13. 13 Chapter 13 How the Author Was Sold in Newark — 3:46
14. 14 Chapter 14 The Office Bore — 4:57
15. 15 Chapter 15 Johnny Greer — 1:47
16. 16 Chapter 16 The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract — 15:07
17. 17 Chapter 17 The Case of George Fisher — 18:06
18. 18 Chapter 18 Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy — 8:51
19. 19 Chapter 19 The Judge's Spirited Woman — 3:31
20. 20 Chapter 20 Information Wanted — 4:44
21. 21 Chapter 21 Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls-Part First — 24:23
22. 22 Chapter 22 Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls - Part Second — 15:41
23. 23 Chapter 23 Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls-Part Third — 10:30
24. 24 Chapter 24 My Late Senatorial Secretaryship — 11:58

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