The Boys' Life of Mark Twain: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, credited to Albert Bigelow Pain, 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 The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Pain read by John Greenman. Albert Bigelow Paine was Samuel Langhorne Clemens’ (Mark Twain’s) biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting ideas and material for a biography, for a few years before Twain’s death in 1910. Six years later Paine published this “story of a man who made the world laugh and love him.” For those who have read or listened to Mark Twain’s works, Paine’s work is an invaluable resource to better understand Twain, the stories behind his stories and his life with those he loved and with whom he worked. (Summary by John Greenman)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
• Author credits: Albert Bigelow Pain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 71
• Listed recording duration: 8:50:46

Catalogue topics

• biography
• Twain

Opening tracks: first 24 of 71

1. 00 - Preface — 1:08
2. 01 - The Family of John Clemens — 8:19
3. 02 - The New Home and Uncle Quarel's Farm — 8:18
4. 03 - School — 6:00
5. 04 - Education Out of School — 13:11
6. 05 - Tom Sawyer and his Band — 18:47
7. 06 - Closing School-Days — 8:45
8. 07 - The Apprentice — 6:57
9. 08 - Orion's Paper — 6:45
10. 09 - The Open Road — 12:51
11. 10 - A Wind of Change — 8:48
12. 11 - The Long Way to the Amazon — 6:28
13. 12 - Renewing an Old Ambition — 7:43
14. 13 - Learning the River — 11:56
15. 14 - River Days — 13:28
16. 15 - The Wreck of the 'Pennsylvania' — 4:02
17. 16 - The Pilot — 9:38
18. 17 - The End of Piloting — 4:11
19. 18 - The Soldier — 8:00
20. 19 - The Pioneer — 6:31
21. 20 - The Miner — 18:17
22. 21 - The Territorial Enterprise — 7:06
23. 22 - 'Mark Twain' — 7:07
24. 23 - Artemus Ward and Literary San Francisco — 10:31

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