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Christian Science by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
Classic Audiobook Collection
09/15/22
•494m
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Christian Science by Mark Twain audiobook.
Genre: religion
Christian Science is a 1907 collection of essays Mark Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910). He called her, according to American writer Caroline Fraser, '[g]rasping, sordid, penurious, famishing for everything she sees—money, power, glory—vain, untruthful, jealous, despotic, arrogant, insolent, pitiless where thinkers and hypnotists are concerned, illiterate, shallow, incapable of reasoning outside of commercial lines, immeasurably selfish.'
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:06:05) Chapter 02
(00:30:53) Chapter 03
(00:43:09) Chapter 04
(00:50:33) Chapter 05
(01:01:03) Chapter 06
(01:29:47) Chapter 07
(01:56:54) Chapter 08
(02:01:21) Chapter 09
(02:14:32) Chapter 10
(02:29:32) Chapter 11
(02:50:47) Chapter 12
(03:01:14) Chapter 13
(03:14:49) Chapter 14
(03:20:48) Chapter 15
(03:34:37) Chapter 16
(04:33:03) Chapter 17
(05:01:57) Chapter 18
(05:42:05) Chapter 19
(05:43:59) Chapter 20
(05:58:48) Chapter 21
(05:59:39) Chapter 22
(06:05:16) Chapter 23
(06:07:58) Chapter 24
(06:09:32) Chapter 25
(06:25:53) Chapter 26
(06:37:18) Chapter 27
(06:40:25) Chapter 28
(06:41:50) Chapter 29
(07:05:50) Chapter 30
(07:14:13) Chapter 31
(07:18:32) Chapter 32
(07:36:37) Chapter 33
(07:38:25) Chapter 34
(07:55:05) Chapter 35
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Alonzo Fitz & Other Stories by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]
September 15, 2022
•206m
Alonzo Fitz & Other Stories by Mark Twain audiobook.
Genre: comedy
Alonzo Fitz & Other Stories gathers a handful of Mark Twain's sharpest late-career short pieces - brisk, mischievous, and built to be read aloud. Across these compact tales and sketches, Twain turns everyday American confidence into comedy: earnest people chase grand plans, argue over respectable opinions, and stumble into consequences they never imagined. In the title story, a seemingly ordinary situation swells into a comic tangle of assumptions and reactions, showing how quickly pride and certainty can outrun common sense. Elsewhere, Twain plays with exaggeration, improbable coincidences, and mock-serious logic to poke at fashion, public judgment, and the self-important tone of modern progress. Each story is short on patience for pretension and long on wit - the kind that lands as a joke, then lingers as a critique. Whether he is describing a community in uproar or a single character making a spectacularly human mistake, Twain keeps the pace quick, the language clean and punchy, and the target unmistakable: the ways people fool themselves, especially when they are trying hardest to look wise.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:43:35) Chapter 02
(00:59:33) Chapter 03
(01:15:03) Chapter 04
(01:28:18) Chapter 05
(01:56:44) Chapter 06
(02:12:30) Chapter 07
(02:22:02) Chapter 08
(02:28:41) Chapter 09
(02:43:43) Chapter 10
(02:51:28) Chapter 11
(02:59:27) Chapter 12
(03:08:13) Chapter 13
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Fennimore Cooper’s Literary Offences by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]
September 16, 2022
•35m
Fennimore Cooper’s Literary Offences by Mark Twain audiobook.
Genre: comedy
In Fennimore Coopers Literary Offences, Mark Twain turns his sharp wit on one of America's early bestselling novelists, James Fenimore Cooper, and invites listeners into a gleefully rigorous takedown of what Twain sees as careless storytelling. Framed as a mock-serious piece of criticism, the essay begins with Twain's bafflement at Cooper's popularity and quickly becomes a tour of the alleged sins of romantic adventure fiction: improbable action, muddled geography, convenient coincidences, and prose that stumbles over clarity and common sense. Along the way, Twain lays out his famous set of rules for writing fiction and then, point by point, argues that Cooper violates nearly all of them, using examples from the Leatherstocking novels and their heroic frontier icon, Natty Bumppo. The result is part comedy, part craft lecture, and part cultural argument about what readers should demand from stories. Whether you love classic frontier tales or enjoy watching a master satirist sharpen his knives, this short work is a lively listen about taste, technique, and the pleasures of saying the quiet part out loud.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
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