Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field - Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspondent - Free Audiobook

Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field - Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspondent - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Henry William Fischer,

Language: English
Genre(s): Biography & AutobiographyEssays & Short WorksHistoryHumorModern (19th C)Non-fictionPolitical ScienceSocial Science (Culture & Anthropology)Travel & GeographyWriting & Linguistics

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97 Chapter(s)
  • 1. Editor’s Note
  • 2. Author’s Preface
  • 3. How Mark Would Safeguard England
  • 4. Mark Philosophized on Willie
  • 5. Mark - Regicide
  • 6. The Funniest Speech Mark Ever Gave
  • 7. Monarchical Atavism
  • 8. Democratic Mark and Austrian Aristocracy
  • 9. Phil Sheridan's Friend
  • 10. "Elizabeth was a He", said Mark
  • 11. Mark, the Sleight-of-hand Man
  • 12. Mark and the Imperial Mistress
  • 13. Mark on Lynch Law
  • 14. Recollections of King Charles and Grant
  • 15. Mark Missed Gallows-land
  • 16. Think of Her Sorrow
  • 17. Breaking the News Gently
  • 18. Dukes and Unborn Car Horses
  • 19. "Pa Used to Be a Terrible Man"
  • 20. Mark on the Berlin Cops
  • 21. The Sausage Room
  • 22. Mark's Glimpse of Schopenhauer
  • 23. "Murderer" Blücher in Oxford
  • 24. Mark's Human Side
  • 25. An Australian Surprise
  • 26. Mark in France and Italy
  • 27. Why Mark Wouldn't Like to Die Abroad
  • 28. The Left Hand Didn't Know
  • 29. American Humorists
  • 30. Telepathy or Suggestion
  • 31. Trying to Be Serious Didn't Work
  • 32. Assorted Beauties
  • 33. Mark's Children Knew Him
  • 34. Mark, Dogs, Dagoes, and Cats
  • 35. The Tragedy of Genius
  • 36. Kilties and the Lassie
  • 37. A Wise Provision of Providence
  • 38. The Awful German Language
  • 39. Artist or Photographer
  • 40. Mark Interviewed the Barber about Harry Thaw
  • 41. His Portrait—a Mirror
  • 42. Mark, Bismarck, Lincoln, and Darwin
  • 43. Mark at the Stock Exchange, Vienna
  • 44. Mark and the Prussian Lieutenant
  • 45. Mark Studies the Costermonger Language
  • 46. That Beautiful Funeral
  • 47. Ada's Beast of a Man
  • 48. Jealousy in Lowland
  • 49. The Troubles of Liz
  • 50. The French Madame
  • 51. The Great Disappointment
  • 52. Rheumatism and Prodding
  • 53. On Literary Friendships
  • 54. Bayard Taylor's German
  • 55. Genius in Extremis
  • 56. What May Happen to You after You Are Dead
  • 57. Kings in Their Birthday Suits
  • 58. Mark on Lincoln's Humanity
  • 59. An English Lover of Kings and a Hater
  • 60. Mark Got Arrested in Berlin
  • 61. Books that Weren't Written
  • 62. Mark Enjoyed Other Humorists
  • 63. Mark and the English Hack-writer
  • 64. Mark Thought Joan of Arc Was Slandered
  • 65. Running Amuck—Almost
  • 66. Mark's Idiomatic Gems
  • 67. Mark and the Girls that Love a Lord
  • 68. Mark's Martyrdom
  • 69. Slang Not in Mark's Dictionary
  • 70. Mark "No Gentleman"
  • 71. Mark, Poetry, and Art
  • 72. Mark Sheds Light on English History
  • 73. Mark Explains Dean Swift
  • 74. Mark in Tragedy and Comedy
  • 75. "Ambition Is a Jade that More Than One Man Can Ride"
  • 76. Mark as a Translator
  • 77. Mark in England
  • 78. Why Mark Was Uncomfortable in the King of Sweden's Presence
  • 79. Mark's Idea of High Art
  • 80. Mark Meets King Leopold—Almost
  • 81. Sizing Up of Aristocracy by Mark
  • 82. The Bald-headed Woman
  • 83. When a Publisher Dines and Wines You
  • 84. Mark in Politics
  • 85. Mark on "Royal Honors"
  • 86. American Women the Prettiest
  • 87. Where Tay Pay Isn't Tay Pay
  • 88. The Man Who Didn't Get Used to Hanging
  • 89. Stray Sayings of Mark
  • 90. Eugene Field and His Troubles in Chicago
  • 91. More of Eugene Field's Trials in London
  • 92. Gene, a "Success of Curiosity"
  • 93. Dire Consequences of American Horseplay
  • 94. Field's Library of Humor
  • 95. Those German Professors
  • 96. Eugene Field and Northern Lore
  • 97. Little Boy Blue

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This work brings new understanding of the life and work of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) while living and traveling abroad. Twain and fellow humorist Eugene Field experienced a wide variety of people, places and things together and author Henry Fischer brings them together here, for the first time. - Summary by John Greenman

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