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    The Humorous Short Stories of Mark Twain
    The Humorous Short Stories of Mark Twain
    The Humorous Short Stories of Mark Twain
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Humorous Short Stories of Mark Twain

    Written by Mark Twain

    Narrated by David Thorn, Bobbie Frohman, Bruce Blau and Full Cast

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    About this audiobook

    This delightful collection of gems by Mark Twain begins with the story of a town called Hadleyburg, which prides itself on the honesty of its citizens. One day a citizen of Hadleyburg offends a stranger passing through, who vows to take his revenge by revealing just how corruptible the sanctimonious town really is. Twain is at his best here, poking fun at common hypocrisy as the self-satisfied pillars of the community are done in by their own greed.

    Other stories in the collection include:
    1. The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
    2. The Double Barrelled Detective Story
    3. The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
    4. The Million Dollar Bank Note
    5. Benton and Mills
    6. A Tale
    7. Cannibalism in the Cars
    8. The Stolen White Elephant
    9. The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby's
    10. The Good Little Boy
    11. The Bad Little Boy
    12. Baker's Blue Jay Yarn

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlcazar Audio Works
    Release dateJan 1, 2007
    ISBN9780974680699
    The Humorous Short Stories of Mark Twain
    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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