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    Twain's Humor - Collected Stories
    Twain's Humor - Collected Stories
    Twain's Humor - Collected Stories
    Audiobook5 hours

    Twain's Humor - Collected Stories

    Written by Mark Twain

    Narrated by Thomas Becker

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    22 Classic Stories from classic American writer, Mark Twain:

    • "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
    • "The Story of the Old Ram"
    • "Buck Fanshaw's Funeral"
    • "Tom Quartz"
    • "What Stumped the Bluejays"
    • "Journalism in Tennessee"
    • "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper"
    • "The Facts in the Great Beef Contract"
    • "The Great Landslide Case"
    • "The Canvasser's Tale"
    • "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival Crime in Connecticut"
    • "Cannibalism in the Cars"
    • "My Watch"
    • "Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
    • "Political Economy"
    • "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm"
    • "The Art of Authorship"
    • "The Genuine Mexican Plug"
    • "Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup"
    • "First Interview with Artemus Ward"
    • "Punch, Brothers, Punch"
    • "Elmira: October 11th, 1869"

    "Thomas Becker's delivery suggest the wry humor one imagines the author himself would use in reading them." -- Booklist

    "This recording's success is a result of Becker's dramatic reading ability, which is nicely understated yet totally effective and appropriate." -- School Library Journal

    "Possibly the best Twain on the market." --The Society for Performance Literature

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpotify Audiobooks
    Release dateJun 1, 2006
    ISBN9781467610605
    Twain's Humor - Collected Stories
    Author

    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.

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      Extolling Twains greatness as a humorist is absolutely unnecessary, his perspective, phrasing, timing and casual deprication are timeless. But this recording is really something special. The voice actors capture the requisite pitch, nuance, cadence and character masterfully, and the production values are excellent as well. Bravo and thank you to all involved.