Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III


Leído por John Greenman

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This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. These recordings of Paine's exhaustive biography cover Twain's personal and literary life in detail, heretofore, unapproached. The published work is divided into 7 sections, on three separate recordings:

Recording #1
-VOLUME I, Part 1: 1835-1866
-VOLUME I, Part 2: 1866-1875

Recording #2
-VOLUME II, Part 1: 1875-1886
-VOLUME II, Part 2: 1886-1900

Recording #3 (This Recording)
-VOLUME III, Part 1: 1900-1907
-VOLUME III, Part 2: 1907-1910
-Appendixes
( John Greenman and Wikipedia with special thanks to Eberhard Schneider, Altlußheim, Germany)

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VOLUME III, Part 1: 1900-1907 CCXII. THE RETURN OF THE CONQUEROR 21:53 Leído por John Greenman
CCXIII. MARK TWAIN—GENERAL SPOKESMAN 16:09 Leído por John Greenman
CCXIV. MARK TWAIN AND THE MISSIONARIES 25:24 Leído por John Greenman
CCXV. SUMMER AT “THE LAIR” 17:11 Leído por John Greenman
CCXVI. RIVERDALE—A YALE DEGREE 7:45 Leído por John Greenman
CCXVII. MARK TWAIN IN POLITICS 9:08 Leído por John Greenman
CCXVIII. NEW INTERESTS AND INVESTMENTS 17:02 Leído por John Greenman
CCXIX. YACHTING AND THEOLOGY 22:21 Leído por John Greenman
CCXX. MARK TWAIN AND THE PHILIPPINES 5:36 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXI. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE 13:35 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXII. A PROPHET HONORED IN HIS COUNTRY 8:02 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXIII. AT YORK HARBOR 13:01 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXIV. THE SIXTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY DINNER 11:49 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXV. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CONTROVERSIES 5:46 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXVI. "WAS IT HEAVEN? OR HELL?” 13:34 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXVII. THE SECOND RIVERDALE WINTER 19:09 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXVIII. PROFFERED HONORS 10:07 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXXIX. THE LAST SUMMER AT ELMIRA 10:06 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXX. THE RETURN TO FLORENCE 18:09 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXXI. THE CLOSE OF A BEAUTIFUL LIFE 9:07 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXXII. THE SAD JOURNEY HOME 10:42 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXXIII. BEGINNING ANOTHER HOME 7:31 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXXIV. LIFE AT 21 FIFTH AVENUE 26:56 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXXV. A SUMMER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE 29:37 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXXVI. AT PIER 70 10:40 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXXVII. AFTERMATH 10:47 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXXVIII. THE WRITER MEETS MARK TWAIN 18:30 Leído por John Greenman
CCXXXIX. WORKING WITH MARK TWAIN 14:11 Leído por John Greenman
CCXL. THE DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN 20:20 Leído por John Greenman
CCXLI. GORKY, HOWELLS, AND MARK TWAIN 18:46 Leído por John Greenman
CCXLII. MARK TWAIN’S GOOD-BY TO THE PLATFORM 6:46 Leído por John Greenman
CCXLIII. AN INVESTMENT IN REDDING 8:24 Leído por John Greenman
CCXLIV. TRAITS AND PHILOSOPHIES 10:38 Leído por John Greenman
CCXLV. IN THE DAY’S ROUND 19:32 Leído por John Greenman
CCXLVI. THE SECOND SUMMER AT DUBLIN 19:56 Leído por John Greenman
CCXLVII. DUBLIN, CONTINUED 14:48 Leído por John Greenman
CCXLVIII. "WHAT IS MAN?” AND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6:23 Leído por John Greenman
CCXLIX. BILLIARDS 21:07 Leído por John Greenman
CCL. PHILOSOPHY AND PESSIMISM 13:14 Leído por John Greenman
CCLI. A LOBBYING EXPEDITION 28:51 Leído por John Greenman
CCLII. THEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 39:32 Leído por John Greenman
CCLIII. AN EVENING WITH HELEN KELLER 3:19 Leído por John Greenman
CCLIV. BILLIARD-ROOM NOTES 11:39 Leído por John Greenman
CCLV. FURTHER PERSONALITIES 9:20 Leído por John Greenman
VOLUME III, Part 2: 1907-1910 - CCLVI. HONORS FROM OXFORD 8:48 Leído por John Greenman
CCLVII. A TRUE ENGLISH WELCOME 32:27 Leído por John Greenman
CCLVIII. DOCTOR OF LITERATURE, OXFORD 10:28 Leído por John Greenman
CCLIX. LONDON SOCIAL HONORS 22:13 Leído por John Greenman
CCLX. MATTERS PSYCHIC AND OTHERWISE 12:25 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXI. MINOR EVENTS AND DIVERSIONS 14:48 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXII. FROM MARK TWAIN’s MAIL. 17:34 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXIII. SOME LITERARY LUNCHEONS 10:11 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXIV. "CAPTAIN STORMFIELD” IN PRINT 5:10 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXV. LOTOS CLUB HONORS 4:51 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXVI. A WINTER IN BERMUDA 21:42 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXVII. VIEWS AND ADDRESSES 10:06 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXVIII. REDDING 12:43 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXIX. FIRST DAYS AT STORMFIELD 6:56 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXX. THE ALDRICH MEMORIAL 6:16 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXI. DEATH OF “SAM” MOFFETT 5:21 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXII. STORMFIELD ADVENTURES 8:25 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXIII. STORMFIELD PHILOSOPHIES 16:03 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXIV. CITIZEN AND FARMER 10:22 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXV. A MANTEL AND A BABY ELEPHANT 9:04 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXVI. SHAKESPEARE-BACON TALK 12:02 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXVII. "IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?” 14:02 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXVIII. THE DEATH OF HENRY ROGERS 8:31 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXIX. AN EXTENSION OF COPYRIGHT 6:54 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXX. A WARNING 16:29 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXXI. THE LAST SUMMER AT STORMFIELD 6:19 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXXII. PERSONAL MEMORANDA 26:29 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXXIII. ASTRONOMY AND DREAMS 14:33 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXXIV. A LIBRARY CONCERT 5:27 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXXV. A WEDDING AT STORMFIELD 5:13 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXXVI. AUTUMN DAYS 24:34 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXXVII. MARK TWAIN’S READING 11:26 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXXVIII. A BERMUDA BIRTHDAY 13:26 Leído por John Greenman
CCLXXXIX. THE DEATH OF JEAN 19:00 Leído por John Greenman
CCXC. THE RETURN TO BERMUDA 6:07 Leído por John Greenman
CCXCI. LETTERS FROM BERMUDA 15:24 Leído por John Greenman
CCXCII. THE VOYAGE HOME 24:28 Leído por John Greenman
CCXCIII. THE RETURN TO THE INVISIBLE 7:59 Leído por John Greenman
CCXCIV. THE LAST RITES 4:17 Leído por John Greenman
CCXCV. MARK TWAIN’S RELIGION 15:08 Leído por John Greenman
CCXCVI. POSTSCRIPT 2:58 Leído por John Greenman
Volume III - APPENDIXES - APPENDIX A - LETTER FROM ORION CLEMENS TO MISS WOOD CONCERNING HENRY CLEMENS (See Chapter xxvi) 5:06 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX B - MARK TWAIN’S BURLESQUE OF CAPTAIN ISAIAH SELLERS (See Chapter xxvii) 9:16 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX C - I. MARK TWAIN’S EMPIRE CITY HOAX - II. NEWS-GATHERING WITH MARK TWAIN (See Chapter xli) 8:41 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX D - FROM MARK TWAIN’S FIRST LECTURE, DELIVERED OCTOBER 2, 1866 - HAWAIIAN IMPORTANCE TO AMERICA - NATIVE PASSION FOR FUNERALS - VIEW FROM HALEAKALA - NOTICE OF MARK TWAIN’S LECTURE - “THE TROUBLE IS OVER” (See Chapter liv) 13:13 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX E - FROM “THE JUMPING FROG” BOOK (MARK TWAIN’S FIRST PUBLISHED VOLUME - I. ADVERTISEMENT - II. FROM ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS - III. FROM “A STRANGE DREAM” (Example of Mark Twain’s Early Descriptive Writing) (See Chapters lviii and lix) 11:13 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX F - THE INNOCENTS ABROAD (See Chapter lx) 2:42 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX G - MARK TWAIN AT THE CORRESPONDENTS CLUB, WASHINGTON (See Chapter lxiii) 7:12 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX H - ANNOUNCEMENT FOR LECTURE OF JULY 2, 1868 (See Chapter lxvi) 8:36 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX I - MARK TWAIN’S CHAMPIONSHIP OF THOMAS K. BEECHER (See Chapter lxxiv) 16:13 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX J - THE INDIGNITY PUT UPON THE REMAINS OF GEORGE HOLLAND BY THE REV. MR. SABINE. (See Chapter lxxvii) 16:31 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX K - A SUBSTITUTE FOR RULOFF - HAVE WE A SIDNEY CARTON AMONG US? (See Chapter lxxxii) 7:15 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX L - ABOUT LONDON - ADDRESS AT A DINNER GIVEN BY THE SAVAGE CLUB, LONDON, SEPTEMBER 28, 1872. (See Chapter lxxxvii) 12:10 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX M - LETTER WRITTEN TO MRS. CLEMENS FROM BOSTON, NOVEMBER, 1874, PROPHESYING A MONARCHY IN SIXTY-ONE YEARS. (See Chapter xcvii) 13:55 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX N - MARK TWAIN AND COPYRIGHT - I. PETITION Concerning Copyright (1875) - CIRCULAR TO AMERICAN AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS - II. Communications supposed to have been written by the Tsar of Russia and the Sultan of Turkey to Mark Twain on the subject of International Copyright, about 1890. - III. MARK TWAIN’S LAST SUGGESTION ON COPYRIGHT. (See Chapter cii) 19:31 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX O - Speech on John Greenleaf Whittier's birthday (See Chapter cxiv) 14:07 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX P - THE ADAM MONUMENT PETITION (See Chapter cxxxiv) 4:19 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX Q- GENERAL GRANT’S GRAMMAR (Written in 1886. Delivered at an Army and Navy Club dinner in New York City) 8:00 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX R - PARTY ALLEGIANCE. BEING A PORTION OF A PAPER ON “CONSISTENCY,” READ BEFORE THE MONDAY EVENING CLUB IN 1887. (See Chapter clxiii) 12:47 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX S - ORIGINAL PREFACE FOR “A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT” (See Chapter clxxii) 5:08 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX T - A TRIBUTE TO HENRY H. ROGERS (See Chapter cc and earlier) 9:00 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX U - FROM MARK TWAIN’S LAST POEM BEGUN AT RIVERDALE, NEW YORK. FINISHED AT YORK HARBOR, MAINE, AUGUST 18, 1902 (See Chapter ccxxiii) 6:25 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX V - SELECTIONS FROM AN UNFINISHED BOOK, “3,000 YEARS AMONG THE MICROBES” THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MICROBE, WHO, IN A FORMER EXISTENCE, HAD BEEN A MAN—HIS PRESENT HABITAT BEING THE ORGANISM OF A TRAMP, BLITZOWSKI. (WRITTEN AT DUBLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1905) (See Chapter ccxxxv) 31:59 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX W - LITTLE BESSIE WOULD ASSIST PROVIDENCE (See Chapter cclxxxii) 8:18 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX X - Part One - A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF MARK TWAIN’S WORKS, PUBLISHED AND OTHERWISE—FROM 1851-1859 3:22 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX X - Part Two - MARK TWAIN’S WORKS, PUBLISHED AND OTHERWISE—FROM 1860 to 1869 5:43 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX X - Part Three - MARK TWAIN’S WORKS, FROM 1870 to 1879 7:04 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX X - Part Four - MARK TWAIN’S WORKS, FROM 1880 to 1889 5:42 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX X - Part Five - MARK TWAIN’S WORKS, FROM 1890 to 1899 8:19 Leído por John Greenman
APPENDIX X - Part Six - MARK TWAIN’S WORKS, FROM 1900 to 1910 8:06 Leído por John Greenman

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A Rare Bad Read


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Mr. Greenman (sincere appreciation) had a bad day this time around.

Many laughs and many contemplations


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Many thanks to Mr. Greenman for his long, devoted labors in bringing these priceless three volumes of Mark Twain’s biography to my ears.