Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field - Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspondent - Бесплатная аудиокнига

Жанр(ы): Биография и автобиография Эссе и короткие произведения История Юмор Современная (19 век)Нон-фикшн Политология Социальные науки (Культура и антропология)Путешествия и география Письмо и лингвистика

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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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