The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return, credited to Artemus Ward, 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 The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return by Artemus Ward. Read in English by Delmar H Dolbier Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a series of letters, essays, and stories told in the first person by a droll, illiterate rube with a good measure of subtle common sense who commented on the events and fads of the day. Taking his character to the stage as a lecturer, Browne became an early-day prototype of what we now name a stand-up comedian. Artemus Ward was such a favorite of President Abraham Lincoln that the chief executive read one of the Ward stories to his assembled cabinet officers before getting down to the business of discussing the proposed Emancipation Proclamation. Browne’s writings became popular in England as well as in America, and he travelled to Britain to perform his Artemus Ward lectures and contribute to the comic magazine Punch. Browne contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of thirty-two in Southampton. (There was a real Artemus Ward, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.) - Summary by Delmar H. Dolbier

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return
• Author credits: Artemus Ward
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 2:07:25

Catalogue topics

• 19th century american humor

Track guide

1. 01 - Ch 1 — 25:28
2. 02 - Ch 2 — 22:34
3. 03 - Ch 3 — 22:25
4. 04 - Ch 4 — 26:07
5. 05 - Ch 5 — 30:51

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