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Boys Life of Mark Twain

Name: Boys Life of Mark Twain
Author: Albert Bigelow Paine

Albert Bigelow Paine

Read by John Greenman · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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00 - Preface (1:08)
01 - The Family of John Clemens (8:19)
02 - The New Home and Uncle Quarel's Farm (8:18)
03 - School (5:59)
04 - Education Out of School (13:11)
05 - Tom Sawyer and his Band (18:47)
06 - Closing School-Days (8:44)
07 - The Apprentice (6:56)
08 - Orion's Paper (6:45)
09 - The Open Road (12:51)
10 - A Wind of Change (8:47)
11 - The Long Way to the Amazon (6:27)
12 - Renewing an Old Ambition (7:43)
13 - Learning the River (11:56)
14 - River Days (13:27)
15 - The Wreck of the 'Pennsylvania' (4:01)
16 - The Pilot (9:37)
17 - The End of Piloting (4:10)
18 - The Soldier (8:00)
19 - The Pioneer (6:31)
20 - The Miner (18:16)
21 - The Territorial Enterprise (7:05)
22 - 'Mark Twain' (7:06)
23 - Artemus Ward and Literary San Francisco (10:30)
24 - The Discovery of 'The Jumping Frog' (10:50)
25 - Hawaii and Anson Burlingame (7:10)
26 - Mark Twain, Lecturer (15:04)
27 - An Innocent Abroad, and Home Again (8:49)
28 - Olivia Langdon. Work on the 'Innocents' (6:27)
29 - The Visit to Elmira and its Consequences (6:42)
30 - The New Book and a Wedding (6:25)
31 - Mark Twain in Buffalo (5:58)
32 - At Work on 'Roughing It' (4:51)
33 - In England (4:25)
34 - A New Book and New English Triumphs (6:54)
35 - Beginning 'Tom Sawyer' (4:26)
36 - The New Home (4:10)
37 - 'Old Times', 'Sketches' and 'Tom Sawyer' (6:15)
38 - Home Pictures (4:59)
39 - Tramping Abroad (11:01)
40 - 'The Prince and the Pauper' (4:58)
41 - General Grant at Hartford (5:08)
42 - Many Investments (5:35)
43 - Back to the River with Bixby (4:30)
44 - A Reading-Tour with Cable (6:06)
45 - 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (3:30)
46 - Pubisher to General Grant (4:56)
47 - The High-Tide of Fortune (4:28)
48 - Business Difficulties. Pleasanter Things (15:19)
49 - Kipling at Elmyra. Elsie Leslie. 'The Yankee' (9:26)
50 - The Machine. Good-by to Hartford. 'Joan' Is Begun (14:54)
51 - The Failure of Webster & Co. Around the World. Sorrow (13:20)
52 - European Economies (6:09)
53 - Mark Twain Pays His Debts (5:50)
54 - Return After Exile (3:57)
55 - A Prophet at Home (5:46)
56 - Honored by Missouri (6:29)
57 - The Close of a Beautiful Life (6:56)
58 - Mark Twain at Seventy (10:08)
59 - Mark Twain Arranges for his Biography (9:43)
60 - Working With Mark Twain (7:03)
61 - Dictation at Dublin, N.H. (4:28)
62 - A New Era of Billiards (5:59)
63 - Living With Mark Twain (5:03)
64 - A Degree from Oxford (3:39)
65 - The Removal to Redding (6:26)
66 - Life at Stormfield (5:52)
67 - The Death of Jean (3:23)
68 - Days in Bermuda (5:27)
69 - The Return to Redding (3:22)
70 - The Close of a Great Life (3:56)