The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories [Full Audiobook] by Mark Twain
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Published 2017-06-18
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a 1906 collection of 30 comic short stories by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Published just 4 years before his death, this was the last time he chose works from throughout his career, in an effort to show the diversity of his style and the breadth and depth of his interests.
00:00:00 The $30,000 Bequest
01:13:28 A Dog's Tale
01:39:18 Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
02:26:42 A Cure for the Blues
03:16:53 The Curious Book
05:09:04 The Californian's Tale
05:27:11 A Helpless Situation
05:40:31 A Telephonic Conversation
05:46:41 Edward Mills and George B
06:01:24 The Five Boons of Life
06:07:55 The First Writing-Machines
06:15:32 Italian Without a Master
06:32:53 Italian With Grammar
06:50:48 A Burlesque Biography
07:04:27 How To Tell A Story
07:17:57 General Washington's Negro Body-Servant
07:27:22 Wit Inspirations of the
07:34:31 An Entertaining Article
07:55:54 A Letter To The Secretary of the Treasury & And Amended Obituaries
08:01:57 A Monument to Adam & Amended Obituaries
08:09:36 Introduction to The
08:16:26 Advice to Little Girls & Post-Mortem Poetry
08:31:18 The Danger of Lying in Bed
08:39:03 Portrait of King William III
08:45:39 Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
09:14:46 Extracts From Adam's Diary
09:39:57 Eve's Diary
10:04:01 Extract From Adam's Diary
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Thank you. Great reading.
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Thank you for the upload!
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Clemens could be a fine spinner of tales at times and at other times his own worst enemy when he lets his penchant for excess loquaciousness and overblown, convoluted Victorian prose devolve into self indulgent, gobbledeegook gunk that is decidedly not literature. He wasn't always good at self-editing, as can be seen in a couple of these ramblings.
