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Boys Life of Mark Twain

Public domain audiobook

Boys Life of Mark Twain

by Albert Bigelow Paine

English· 8:50:46· 71 chapters
Albert Bigelow Paine was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' (Mark Twain's) biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting ideas and material for a biography, for a few years before Twain's death in 1910. Six years later Paine published this "story of a man who made the world laugh and love him".


For those who have read or listened to Mark Twain's works, Paine's work is an invaluable resource to better understand Twain, the stories behind his stories and his life with those he loved and with whom he worked. (Summary by John Greenman)

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    00 - Preface

    01:08
  2. Chapter 2

    01 - The Family of John Clemens

    08:19
  3. Chapter 3

    02 - The New Home and Uncle Quarel's Farm

    08:18
  4. Chapter 4

    03 - School

    05:59
  5. Chapter 5

    04 - Education Out of School

    13:11
  6. Chapter 6

    05 - Tom Sawyer and his Band

    18:47
  7. Chapter 7

    06 - Closing School-Days

    08:44
  8. Chapter 8

    07 - The Apprentice

    06:56
  9. Chapter 9

    08 - Orion's Paper

    06:45
  10. Chapter 10

    09 - The Open Road

    12:51
  11. Chapter 11

    10 - A Wind of Change

    08:47
  12. Chapter 12

    11 - The Long Way to the Amazon

    06:27
  13. Chapter 13

    12 - Renewing an Old Ambition

    07:43
  14. Chapter 14

    13 - Learning the River

    11:56
  15. Chapter 15

    14 - River Days

    13:27
  16. Chapter 16

    15 - The Wreck of the 'Pennsylvania'

    04:01
  17. Chapter 17

    16 - The Pilot

    09:37
  18. Chapter 18

    17 - The End of Piloting

    04:10
  19. Chapter 19

    18 - The Soldier

    08:00
  20. Chapter 20

    19 - The Pioneer

    06:31
  21. Chapter 21

    20 - The Miner

    18:16
  22. Chapter 22

    21 - The Territorial Enterprise

    07:05
  23. Chapter 23

    22 - 'Mark Twain'

    07:06
  24. Chapter 24

    23 - Artemus Ward and Literary San Francisco

    10:30
  25. Chapter 25

    24 - The Discovery of 'The Jumping Frog'

    10:50
  26. Chapter 26

    25 - Hawaii and Anson Burlingame

    07:10
  27. Chapter 27

    26 - Mark Twain, Lecturer

    15:04
  28. Chapter 28

    27 - An Innocent Abroad, and Home Again

    08:49
  29. Chapter 29

    28 - Olivia Langdon. Work on the 'Innocents'

    06:27
  30. Chapter 30

    29 - The Visit to Elmira and its Consequences

    06:42
  31. Chapter 31

    30 - The New Book and a Wedding

    06:25
  32. Chapter 32

    31 - Mark Twain in Buffalo

    05:58
  33. Chapter 33

    32 - At Work on 'Roughing It'

    04:51
  34. Chapter 34

    33 - In England

    04:25
  35. Chapter 35

    34 - A New Book and New English Triumphs

    06:54
  36. Chapter 36

    35 - Beginning 'Tom Sawyer'

    04:26
  37. Chapter 37

    36 - The New Home

    04:10
  38. Chapter 38

    37 - 'Old Times', 'Sketches' and 'Tom Sawyer'

    06:15
  39. Chapter 39

    38 - Home Pictures

    04:59
  40. Chapter 40

    39 - Tramping Abroad

    11:01
  41. Chapter 41

    40 - 'The Prince and the Pauper'

    04:58
  42. Chapter 42

    41 - General Grant at Hartford

    05:08
  43. Chapter 43

    42 - Many Investments

    05:35
  44. Chapter 44

    43 - Back to the River with Bixby

    04:30
  45. Chapter 45

    44 - A Reading-Tour with Cable

    06:06
  46. Chapter 46

    45 - 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

    03:30
  47. Chapter 47

    46 - Pubisher to General Grant

    04:56
  48. Chapter 48

    47 - The High-Tide of Fortune

    04:28
  49. Chapter 49

    48 - Business Difficulties. Pleasanter Things

    15:19
  50. Chapter 50

    49 - Kipling at Elmyra. Elsie Leslie. 'The Yankee'

    09:26
  51. Chapter 51

    50 - The Machine. Good-by to Hartford. 'Joan' Is Begun

    14:54
  52. Chapter 52

    51 - The Failure of Webster & Co. Around the World. Sorrow

    13:20
  53. Chapter 53

    52 - European Economies

    06:09
  54. Chapter 54

    53 - Mark Twain Pays His Debts

    05:50
  55. Chapter 55

    54 - Return After Exile

    03:57
  56. Chapter 56

    55 - A Prophet at Home

    05:46
  57. Chapter 57

    56 - Honored by Missouri

    06:29
  58. Chapter 58

    57 - The Close of a Beautiful Life

    06:56
  59. Chapter 59

    58 - Mark Twain at Seventy

    10:08
  60. Chapter 60

    59 - Mark Twain Arranges for his Biography

    09:43
  61. Chapter 61

    60 - Working With Mark Twain

    07:03
  62. Chapter 62

    61 - Dictation at Dublin, N.H.

    04:28
  63. Chapter 63

    62 - A New Era of Billiards

    05:59
  64. Chapter 64

    63 - Living With Mark Twain

    05:03
  65. Chapter 65

    64 - A Degree from Oxford

    03:39
  66. Chapter 66

    65 - The Removal to Redding

    06:26
  67. Chapter 67

    66 - Life at Stormfield

    05:52
  68. Chapter 68

    67 - The Death of Jean

    03:23
  69. Chapter 69

    68 - Days in Bermuda

    05:27
  70. Chapter 70

    69 - The Return to Redding

    03:22
  71. Chapter 71

    70 - The Close of a Great Life

    03:56