Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92


Read by John Greenman

(4.5 stars; 11 reviews)

This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, when Twain took his family to Europe in June of 1891, he left with the knowledge that the McClure Syndicate and W. M. Laffan of the New York Sun would pay him one thousand dollars each for six travel letters. Twain’s letters eventually appeared in numerous papers including the Chicago Sunday Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe in addition to the New York Sun. Readers of his “The Innocents Abroad” and “A Tramp Abroad” will remember his knack of viewing his discoveries with satirical and ironic twists. - Summary by John Greenman and Barbara Schmidt (3 hr 39 min)

Chapters

Mark Twain at Aix-Les Bains 41:39 Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain at Bayreuth 38:52 Read by John Greenman
Playing the Courier 36:36 Read by John Greenman
An Austrian Health Factory 35:52 Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain in the Cradle of Liberty 29:17 Read by John Greenman
The Chicago of Europe 36:45 Read by John Greenman