Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography (1871, reprinted 1910)





Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography (Cleveland, OH: The Ormeril Company, 1910) [12-page pamphlet] - Hathi Trust (read online in flipbook format)

A (Burlesque) Biography - free audiobook - LibriVox Audio Page (15 minutes)

The Innocents Abroad - Vol. 1 - The Writings of Mark Twain Vol. 1


The Innocents Abroad - Free Audiobook - Read by John Greenman - LibriVox Audiobook Download Page

The Innocents Abroad - Wikipedia summary

The Innocents Abroad (6 Volumes) - WikiSource Text

The Innocents Abroad - Project Gutenberg (illustrated and swipe-able on cellphones and tablets)





Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims Progress (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922) Vol. 1.  The Writings of Mark Twain (1923) Vol. 1 - Hathi Trust (read online in flipbook format)


CONTENTS

Preface

I. We Go to See Kings

II. Our Paddle-Wheels Go 'Round

III. Fine Day at Sea? "Oh, My!"

IV.  Our Singing Provokes Head-Winds

V.  The Watch That Couldn't Keep Up

VI. The Poor, Shiftless, Lazy Azoreans

VII.  Gibraltar -- A "Gob" on a Shingle

VIII. Morocco, Where Riches Have Stings

IX. The Frenchman's Sacred Cat-Mat

X. The Marseillaises Misunderstand Us

XI. The Melancholy Château d'If

XII. France Is A Bewitching Garden

XIII. Napoleon and Abdul Aziz See Us

XIV.  We Shudder at the Can-Can

XV.  Down with the Dastardly Abelard!

XVI. Versailles Entrances Us

XVII. Oh, The Superb Genoese Ladies!
          Genoa -- Superb but Tomb-like

XVIII.  Milan - A Poem in Marble

XIX.  Who Glorifies Poor Mr. Laura?

XX.  Como? Pshaw! See Lake Tahoe

XXI.  Luigi to the Rescue! Whoop!

XXII.  Gondolas Are Water-Hearses

XXIII.  We Master the Old Masters

XXIV.  Galileo's Pendulum in the Duomo

XXV.  Why Don't They Rob Their Churches?

XXVI. Rome and St. Peters Overwhelm Us

XXVII.  Rare Sport -- Guying the Guides


The Innocents Abroad - Vol. 2 - The Writings of Mark Twain Vol. 2


The Innocents Abroad - Read by John Greenman - LibriVox Audiobook Download Page


Above: Mark Twain in 1868, at the time he wrote Innocents Abroad

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922) Vol. 2.  The Writings of Mark Twain (1923) Vol. 2 - Hathi Trust (read online in flipbook format)


CONTENTS

I. The Good-Natured Brother of Skulls

II.  How Vesuvius Is Climbed

III.  The Rags and Riches of Naples

IV.  Pompeii and the Proud Sentinel

V. Seeing Athens by Stealth -- and Moonlight

VI.  Constantinople the Bewildering

VII.  Morals and Whiskey are Scarce

VIII.  In Sebastopol the Battered

IX. What Richlieu and Odessa Did for Each Other

X. We Visit the Czar of All the Russias

XI. Smyrniste Girls are Beautiful

XII.  Who Took The Oysters Up The Hill?

XIII. Ephesus: A World of Precious Relics

XIV. Our Luxurious Camp on Lebanon

XV.  We Meet Noah's Family

XVI. Baalbec The Beautiful and Mysterious

XVII.  I Drink Out of Anantas's Well

XVIII. Nimrod's Tomb, at Jonesborough

XIX. By Ain Mellahah, The Desolate

XX. The Blank Voice of the Turtle

XXI.  The Melancholy Holy Land

XXII. Where The Crusaders Perished

XXIII.  Where The Horses Cried

XXIV.  The Bedouins - Tatterdemalion Vagrants

XXV.  Joseph's Tomb and Jacob's Well

XXVI. I Weep at Adam's Tomb

XXVII. Jerusalem - We Are Surfeited with Sights!

XXVIII.  We Miss Lot's Wife


Roughing It - Vol. 1 - The Writings of Mark Twain Vol. 3



Roughing It - Free Audiobook - Read by John Greenman - LibriVox Audio Download Page

Roughing It - Wikipedia Summary

Roughing It - WikiSource Text 

Roughing It - Project Gutenberg (illustrated and swipe-able by cellphones and tablets)

Twain, Mark. Roughing It (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922) Vol. 1. The Writings of Mark Twain (1923) Vol. 3 - Hathi Trust (read in flipbook format online)

CONTENTS


Roughing It - Vol. 2 - The Writings of Mark Twain Vol. 4

Twain, Mark. Roughing It (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922) Vol. 2. The Writings of Mark Twain (1923) Vol. 4 - Hathi Trust (read online)

CONTENTS


The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - Vol. 1 - The Writings of Mark Twain Vol. 5


The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today - Free Audiobook - Various readers - LibriVox Audiobook Download Page

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - Wikipedia summary

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - Project Gutenberg (illustrated and swipe-able on cellphones and tablets)

Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner.  The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922) Vol. 1. The Writings of Mark Twain (1923) Vol. 5 - Hathi Trust (read online in flipbook format)

CONTENTS


The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - Vol. 2 - The Writings of Mark Twain Vol. 6


Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922) Vol. 2.  The Writings of Mark Twain (1923) Vol. 6 - Hathi Trust (read online)

CONTENTS