Skip to main content.

Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volu…

Gelesen von John Greenman

(4,731 Sterne; 13 Bewertungen)

While the Mark Twain Project has created and released a three-volume Mark Twain autobiography with extensive annotations, in the 21st century, this two-volume autobiography was published in 1924 and contains many works never before released. It came 14 years after Twain's death and so, "speaking from the grave", he felt he could be "as frank and free and unembarrassed as a love letter". The autobiographical chapters that he published years earlier in the North American Review, were selected more for their acceptability and potential popularity than for their completely true reflection of his inner thoughts. With the publication of Mark Twain's Autobiography in 1924, the world was introduced to a much more frank and less restrained Twain than had heretofore been seen or heard. This partial Autobiography, in two volumes, consisting of about two-fifths of his known material, was compiled by a personal friend and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, who at the time had exclusive access to Twain's papers. - Summary by John Greenman and Wikipedia (13 hr 8 min)

Chapters

INTRODUCTION BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE & PREFACE BY MARK TWAIN

17:38

Read by John Greenman

THE TENNESSEE LAND (Written about 1870)

9:15

Read by John Greenman

EARLY YEARS IN FLORIDA, MISSOURI (Written in 1877)

8:33

Read by John Greenman

THE GRANT DICTATIONS--1885--THE CHICAGO G. A. R. FESTIVAL

16:08

Read by John Greenman

GRANT AND THE CHINESE (Dictated in 1885)

9:05

Read by John Greenman

A CALL WITH W. D. HOWELLS ON GENERAL GRANT (Dictated in 1885)

7:33

Read by John Greenman

ABOUT GENERAL GRANT'S "MEMOIRS" (Dictated in 1885)

1:01:52

Read by John Greenman

GERHARDT AND THE GRANT BUST (Dictated in 1885)

23:07

Read by John Greenman

THE REVEREND DOCTOR N---- VISITS GENERAL GRANT (Dictated 1885)

4:34

Read by John Greenman

THE MACHINE EPISODE (Written in the closing days of 1890)

19:21

Read by John Greenman

CHAPTERS BEGUN IN VIENNA - EARLY DAYS (Written 1897-8)

1:09:33

Read by John Greenman

JANE LAMPTON CLEMENS

24:10

Read by John Greenman

PLAYING "BEAR"--HERRINGS--JIM WOLF AND THE CATS (Written about 1898)

41:56

Read by John Greenman

MACFARLANE (Written about 1898)

8:33

Read by John Greenman

OLD LECTURE DAYS IN BOSTON - Nasby, and others of Redpath's Lecture Bureau (Wr…

15:22

Read by John Greenman

RALPH KEELER (Written about 1898)

23:59

Read by John Greenman

BEAUTIES OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE (Written in 1898. Vienna)

4:29

Read by John Greenman

A VIENNESE PROCESSION (Written Sunday, June 26, 1898. Kaltenleutgeben)

13:19

Read by John Greenman

COMMENT ON TAUTOLOGY AND GRAMMAR (Written 1898. Vienna)

6:48

Read by John Greenman

PRIVATE HISTORY OF A MS. THAT CAME TO GRIEF (Written in 1900) and THE LETTER an…

34:58

Read by John Greenman

CHAPTERS ADDED IN FLORENCE (1904) - AUTHOR'S NOTE

1:47

Read by John Greenman

VILLA QUARTO (Florence, January, 1904)

33:03

Read by John Greenman

VILLA QUARTO (Continued)

50:33

Read by John Greenman

A MEMORY OF JOHN HAY

14:12

Read by John Greenman

NOTES ON "INNOCENTS ABROAD" (Florence, April, 1904)

19:52

Read by John Greenman

STEVENSON, ALDRICH, ETC. (Florence, April, 1904)

9:05

Read by John Greenman

HENRY H. ROGERS (Florence, April, 1904)

13:08

Read by John Greenman

HENRY H. ROGERS (Continued) Added in 1909

20:28

Read by John Greenman

INTERVAL OF TWO YEARS-January 9, 1906-MR. CLEMENS (to Mr. Paine):

20:38

Read by John Greenman

New York, January 10, 1906

29:09

Read by John Greenman

New York, January 12, 1906

28:11

Read by John Greenman

New York, January 13, 1906

19:26

Read by John Greenman

New York, January 15, 1906

13:30

Read by John Greenman

MRS MORRIS'S ILLNESS TAKES A SERIOUS TURN - A DISCUSSION IN THE CASE

15:50

Read by John Greenman

New York, January 15th (continued) Dictated on January 16th

18:52

Read by John Greenman

VETERAN ACTOR DEAD - JOHN MALONE WAS HISTORIAN OF THE PLAYERS' CLUB

2:38

Read by John Greenman

ABOUT GENERAL SICKLES - New York (January l6th, continued, dictated Wednesday, …

20:51

Read by John Greenman

New York, Thursday, January 18, 1906

12:21

Read by John Greenman

ABOUT DUELING - New York, Friday, January 19, 1906

24:39

Read by John Greenman