Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. The book follows Twain down and back up the Mississippi who gives picturesque vingettes of everything inbetween. Mark Twain's complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant best seller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author's death, as he requested. Tom Sawyer, Detective Starts at Chapter 219, 9. Cancel online anytime. Published to rave reviews, the Autobiography was hailed as the capstone of Twain's career.

The Prince and the Pauper Starts at Chapter 37, 3. His writing helped me to feel what it was like in that time period and what the people and places were like. Life on the mighty river for Twain consisted of paddleboats and history, poker games and gamblers, larger-than-life characters and outlandish festivals like Mardi Gras. In all, the audio quality wasn't bad enough for it to significatly effect my understanding or enjoyment of the book. In all, the audio quality wasn't bad enough for it to significatly effect my understanding or enjoyment of the book. Life on the Mississippi Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.

By: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Starts at Chapter 70, 4. Twain reflects on his scuffling years mining silver in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, being downandout in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more. Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbook - an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race - contains 69 aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain’s private and published writings. Please try again. Funny in parts, serious in parts, kind of sad in parts, The "tall tales" and exaggerations were priceless. By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's. By: On a whim, she decided to enter the race. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life's work. There's a problem loading this menu right now.



I found it interesting and almost felt like I was on one of the steamboats looking at the shoreline of cabins, shacks and people. Bound on a lecture trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator. Twain recorded it all with his keen eye for detail and biting wit. Frustrating because they are good enough to keep you plodding through the dull stuff to hear another good one :) Just be prepared for a very long read as it can put you to sleep often. And what a change he sees and tells us about! After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Starts at Chapter 1, 2. This well written book by Mark Twain is really his observations about life on Mississippi steamboats and cities up and down the river. Yes, the narration starts off badly technically sampled, but the quality gets very good a little less than halfway through. In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City. There's an old clip of Bugs Bunny sawing the entire state of Florida off the continent - and every single time a news story springs up about some shenanigans in Florida, someone on the internet posts it in response. and others. Professor Chandra is an internationally renowned economist, divorced father of three (quite frankly baffling) children, recent victim of a bicycle hit-and-run - but so much more than the sum of his parts. You will get an email reminder before your trial ends. Ramon Tikaram, Narrated by: The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain’s death. Michael Anthony, An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State, By:
When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist's life and times. At the age of 19, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race" - an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of 25 wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. With his trademark mirth and boundless charisma, actor Nick Offerman brought the loveable shenanigans of Twain's adolescent hero to life in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. (Several comments in other reviews were on the audio quality -- it was perfect.

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And he's on the money and very sweet in this version. But getting back to the text, this is a most lovely American document. Samuel Clemens became a licensed river pilot at the age of twenty-four under the apprenticeship of Horace Bixby, pilot of the Paul Jones. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s Conditions of Use.

Some of the previous reviewers commented negatively on the recording quality, which kept me from getting this book up to now but I finally decided to go for it anyway.

I have listened to the recording twice, have read the book more than two times, and if I take a notion, I will do it again, regardless of the consequences, so little do I value sanity. Tom Sawyer Abroad Starts at Chapter 184, 7. Michael B. Frank (editor),
(That was supposed to be humorous, but I really have listened twice and read twice....and I hope you do too.). He tells stories about the people he met and stories he was told. These stories display Twain's place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. Funny, interesting, moving and always colourful. John Howels, Narrated by:

The content however is a bit like the Mississippi, rather meandering and long.

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This piece is also about Norman Dietz, who is -objectively- the most straight and consistent reader of the Twain out there. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important, but also his best work. In celebration of this important milestone, here, for the first time, is Mark Twain’s uncensored autobiography, in its entirety, exactly as he left it.

Lin Salamo (editor), The long section on training to be a riverboat pilot is a real piece of Americana. By:

Then some 20 years after that he makes a voyage up the mighty river. I am shocked that people actually had the audacity to review this work based upon its fidelity. If so, why? Artfully woven language, satire and prose, with a touch of poetic angst put this in the tops of this reviewers list of books-to-be-listened-to. $14.95 a month after 30 days.

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