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Chapters from My Autobiography
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Samuel Langhorne Clemens – who wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain - was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. He spent his childhood in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri, leaving home in 1853. His brief career as a riverboat pilot was ended by the Civil War, in which he served as a Confederate irregular. He then traveled to Nevada to strike it rich, and when that plan failed went on to achieve renown as a deft humorist, masterful satirist, great novelist and memorable travel writer, using the name “Mark Twain” – a river pilot’s measurement of depth. Beloved by readers around the world, Clemens died in 1910. Collected here is a wonderful selection of anecdotes from Mark Twain's life, as told with candor by the great man himself. This book is part memoir, part philosophical text, part study in human behavior, from one of America's greatest literary treasures. Narrated masterfully by Bronson Pinchot, this audiobook also includes Twain’s popular short story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", as well as a printable eBook in PDF format.
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- Shaz Ginns
- 25-10-2022
A wonderful first hand accounting of a rich, full life well lived
To read this autobiography and glean nothing but some amusing stories is to feast at a table spread by another and see only the sumptuous table and not be able to taste the food. There has never been another writer who has reached the fame afforded Mark Twain and truly deserved the accolades. Mr Clements was blessed to have been born at a time when travel was opening up the world to all those willing to experience it. He was fortunate to have been surrounded in his youth by people from all walks of life and to have been imbued with commonsense values which, at that time, truly were common to most. Only those of the most base intellect and bankrupt character would seek to deny this man’s work to anyone through banning or editing. He saw the best and the worst of humanity and found value within the fabric of it all; humourist, philosopher, statesman and rascal, Mark Twain could only have erupted from the cauldron of a ‘perfect storm’ of the times into which he was born. The narrator also did a fantastic job of bringing an authentic voice to the pages.
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