Mark Twain audiobooks
The Mysterious Stranger
by Mark TwainThe Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories is quiet different from Mark Twain's other works. A village in Austria is isolated from the rest of the world. The religious residents and their customs are in stake, when The Mysterious Stranger visits their village. Though Twain has started working on this novel since 1897, he could not complete it till ..
A Double Barreled Detective Story
by Mark TwainA Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain,, in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a rich young woman is abused, humiliated and abandoned by her new husband, Jacob Fuller, whom she married against the wishes of her father. The young F..
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
by Mark TwainCaptain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain. It first appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. This was the last story published by Twain during his life...
Alonso Fitz and Other Stories
by Mark TwainIn this collection, fans of Twain will surely enjoy reading his essays like "On The Decay of the Art of Lying," "About Magnanimous-Incident Literature," and "Concerning the English Language," and "Speech on the Weather." While some of the other stories here are not great, it's worth reading every story here in order to understand just how gifted Tw..
A Horse's Tale
by Mark TwainA Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. Harper's Magazine originally published the story in two installments in August and September 1906. Clemens wrote the story after receiving a request..
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
by Mark TwainFenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. In his essay The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper, Twain asserted Cooper's popular Deerslayer, a Leatherstocking tale, committed 114 "offenses against literary art out of a possible 115." Generally..
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
by Mark TwainThis satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shameful portrait of how Chinese immigrants were treated in 19th century San Francisco...
Anti-imperialist writings
by Mark TwainThis audiobook is a collection of Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamphlets). Mark Twain's Anti-Imperialist Writings reflect most faithfully the fighting character, uncompromising stance, sharp humor and brilliant intelligence of the famous author. Twain recognizes the need for a..