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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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories Audiobook, by Mark Twain

The Prince and the Pauper Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Puddnhead Wilson Audiobook, by Mark Twain

The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg Audiobook, by Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court Audiobook, by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians Audiobook, by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: An A+ Audio Study Guide Audiobook, by Mark Twain

The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson Audiobook, by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A Novel Audiobook, by Mark Twain

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

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Survive: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals Audiobook, by Mark Twain

A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Life on the Mississippi Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s Library of Humor Audiobook, by Mark Twain

The Mark Twain Sampler Audiobook, by Mark Twain

Great American Stories: 10 Unabridged Classics Audiobook, by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain Audio Books

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