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    Mark Twain In Person Vol. 1
    Mark Twain In Person Vol. 1
    Mark Twain In Person Vol. 1
    Audiobook (abridged)1 hour

    Mark Twain In Person Vol. 1

    Written by Mark Twain

    Narrated by Richard Henzel

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    About this audiobook

    Studio recordings of the best monologues from Richard Henzel’s one man play Mark Twain In Person. Selections include the familiar and the rarely heard excerpts from Mark Twain’s writings, speeches, and private remarks mixed with improvisational moments as well. Includes: Whitewashing the Fence - Tom Sawyer learns a valuable lesson - from the Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Life As I Find It - Mark Twain's philosophy in a nutshell--from What is Man?; Livy - Olivia Langdon Clemens--from Mark Twain’s Autobiography; the Carnival of Crime in Connecticut - Mark Twain battles his arch nemesis to the death - adapted from the short story; the Skeeter Woman - an interesting fellow traveler - from Roughing It; and the Private History of a Campaign that Failed - the "glory" of war - adapted From the short story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family
    Release dateSep 9, 2003
    ISBN9780974723716
    Mark Twain In Person Vol. 1
    Author

    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

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