An Encounter with an Interviewer
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8 minutes, 42 seconds
Unabridged Humor/Literature
1874
Mark Twain deals with the media. Performed by Alex Wilson.
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16 minutes, 7 seconds
Unabridged Humor/Storytelling/Essay
1878
Twain proposes some realistic sequels to three common morality tales.
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9 hours, 24 minutes
Unabridged Adventure/Humor Novel
1885
Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn [...] But it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."
Big-river adventure and biting, laugh-out-loud satire in this classic "Great American Novel." Narrated by John Jennens.
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21 minutes, 12 seconds
Unabridged Humorous Story
1870
A comedic fable about gender issues, succession, identity crisis, and, yes, a bit of love and romance in a patriarchal kingdom in the year 1222. By the incomparable Mark Twain.
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37 minutes, 26 seconds
Two Unabridged Humor Essays
1882,1899
Includes the Telltale Weekly comedic recordings of Mark Twain's "My First Lie (And How I Got Out of It)" and "On the Decay of the Art of Lying." From "My First Lie (and How I Got Out of It):"
"As I understand it, what you desire is information about 'my first lie, and how I got out of it.' I was born in 1835; I am well along, and my memory is not as good as it was. If you had asked about my first truth it would have been easier for me and kinder of you, for I remember that fairly well. I remember it as if it were last week. The family think it was the week before, but that is flattery..."
From "On the Decay of the Art of Lying:"
"Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the custom of lying has suffered any decay or interruption--no, for the Lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this club remains. My complaint simply concerns the decay of the art of lying..."
Two humorous essays/speeches read by Alex Wilson.
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29 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Humorous Speeches
1899-1908
Five speeches by the master at making them interesting and witty.
Theoretical Morals (1899)
"A man can't become morally perfect by stealing one or a thousand green watermelons, but every little helps."
The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling (1907)
"Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can take it too far."
Education and Citizenship (1908)
"Now I want to tell a story about jumping to conclusions. It was told to me by Bram Stoker and it concerns a christening."
Layman's Sermon (1906)
"Now I am not modest. I was born modest, but it didn't last."
University Settlement Society (1901)
"Marvelous it is, to think of schools where you don't have to drive the children in, but drive them out! It was not so in my day."
Read by Alex Wilson.
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27 minutes
Unabridged Short Story
1904
"This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals. Cloudy to-day, wind in the east..."
The battle of the sexes begins in the Garden of Eden, as humourously told by Mark Twain, who "translated a portion" of "Adam's hieroglyphics." The word "Extracts" is actually part of the title; This is the full, unabridged short story. Read by Alex Wilson.
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20 minutes, 55 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1904
"My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself..."
A funny, sweet short story by the incomparable Mark Twain. Read by Alex Wilson.
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