Mark Twain Audio Books

Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens (1835–1910), was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He attended school briefly and then at age thirteen became a full-time apprentice to a local printer. When his older brother Orion established the Hannibal Journal, Samuel became a compositor for that paper and then, for a time, an itinerant printer. With a commission to write comic travel letters, he traveled down the Mississippi. Smitten with the riverboat life, he signed on as an apprentice to a steamboat pilot. After 1859, he became a licensed pilot, but two years later the Civil War put an end to the steam-boat traffic.

In 1861, he and his brother traveled to the Nevada Territory where Samuel became a writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and there, on February 3, 1863, he signed a humorous account with the pseudonym Mark Twain. The name was a river man’s term for water “two fathoms deep” and thus just barely safe for navigation.

In 1870 Twain married and moved with his wife to Hartford, Connecticut. He became a highly successful lecturer in the United States and England, and he continued to write.

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Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn et La Vie et Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé Audiobook, by Daniel Defoe

Mark Twain: How to Tell a Story Audiobook, by Mark Twain

American Icon Mark Twain The Hidden History Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Mark Twain An Autobiography Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Life on the Mississippi Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Letters From Hawaii Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Mark Twain: In His Own Words Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Is Shakespeare Dead?: From my Autobiography Audiobook, by Mark Twain

The Autobiography of Mark Twain Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Chapters from My Autobiography Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Mark Twain: Wild Humorist of the West Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii Audiobook, by Mark Twain

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