Lives & Memoirs
Boys Life of Mark Twain
Albert Bigelow Paine
2026
8h 51m$1.99
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Paine got the story from Mark Twain himself, at close range and near the end. This life for young readers follows the Hannibal boyhood, the river, the silver camps and the lecture halls, told by the man Twain chose as his biographer, who had heard most of it delivered in the great man's own drawl.
Inside this audiobook
71 chapters
- 1Preface1m
- 2The Family of John Clemens8m
- 3The New Home and Uncle Quarel's Farm8m
- 4School6m
- 5Education Out of School13m
- 6Tom Sawyer and his Band19m
- 7Closing School-Days9m
- 8The Apprentice7m
- 9Orion's Paper7m
- 10The Open Road13m
- 11A Wind of Change9m
- 12The Long Way to the Amazon6m
- 13Renewing an Old Ambition8m
- 14Learning the River12m
- 15River Days13m
- 16The Wreck of the 'Pennsylvania'4m
- 17The Pilot10m
- 18The End of Piloting4m
- 19The Soldier8m
- 20The Pioneer7m
- 21The Miner18m
- 22The Territorial Enterprise7m
- 23'Mark Twain'7m
- 24Artemus Ward and Literary San Francisco11m
- 25The Discovery of 'The Jumping Frog'11m
- 26Hawaii and Anson Burlingame7m
- 27Mark Twain, Lecturer15m
- 28An Innocent Abroad, and Home Again9m
- 29Olivia Langdon. Work on the 'Innocents'6m
- 30The Visit to Elmira and its Consequences7m
- 31The New Book and a Wedding6m
- 32Mark Twain in Buffalo6m
- 33At Work on 'Roughing It'5m
- 34In England4m
- 35A New Book and New English Triumphs7m
- 36Beginning 'Tom Sawyer'4m
- 37The New Home4m
- 38'Old Times', 'Sketches' and 'Tom Sawyer'6m
- 39Home Pictures5m
- 40Tramping Abroad11m
- 41'The Prince and the Pauper'5m
- 42General Grant at Hartford5m
- 43Many Investments6m
- 44Back to the River with Bixby5m
- 45A Reading-Tour with Cable6m
- 46'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'4m
- 47Pubisher to General Grant5m
- 48The High-Tide of Fortune4m
- 49Business Difficulties. Pleasanter Things15m
- 50Kipling at Elmyra. Elsie Leslie. 'The Yankee'9m
- 51The Machine. Good-by to Hartford. 'Joan' Is Begun15m
- 52The Failure of Webster & Co. Around the World. Sorrow13m
- 53European Economies6m
- 54Mark Twain Pays His Debts6m
- 55Return After Exile4m
- 56A Prophet at Home6m
- 57Honored by Missouri7m
- 58The Close of a Beautiful Life7m
- 59Mark Twain at Seventy10m
- 60Mark Twain Arranges for his Biography10m
- 61Working With Mark Twain7m
- 62Dictation at Dublin, N.H.4m
- 63A New Era of Billiards6m
- 64Living With Mark Twain5m
- 65A Degree from Oxford4m
- 66The Removal to Redding6m
- 67Life at Stormfield6m
- 68The Death of Jean3m
- 69Days in Bermuda5m
- 70The Return to Redding3m
- 71The Close of a Great Life4m
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