Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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09/16/22

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Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again by Mark Twain audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again, Mark Twain delivers a sharp, darkly funny epistolary satire in the form of letters from Ah Song Hi, a Chinese traveler who sets his sights on America, the celebrated land of liberty and equal rights. Writing home with careful politeness and mounting disbelief, Ah Song Hi describes the long journey across the ocean and his arrival in San Francisco, where the grand promises of opportunity collide with everyday cruelty. As he tries to work, move freely, and simply be treated as a person, he is met by petty officials, hostile crowds, and a legal system that seems eager to punish him for existing in the wrong body and speaking with the wrong accent. Twain uses the narrator's earnest tone and precise observations to expose hypocrisy: the gap between patriotic slogans and the lived reality of an immigrant marked as unwelcome. By turning prejudice into a series of absurd, escalating encounters, the story becomes both a comedy of manners and a fierce moral indictment of anti-Chinese sentiment in 19th-century America.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:05:32) Chapter 02

(00:13:55) Chapter 03

(00:19:48) Chapter 04

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Following the Equator by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

September 16, 2022

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1228m

Following the Equator by Mark Twain audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897.

Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a 'revolutionary' typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2 million in 2005) he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895, a route chosen to provide numerous opportunities for lectures in the English language.

In Following the Equator, an account of that travel published in 1897, the author unmasks and criticizes racism, imperialism and missionary zeal in observations woven into the narrative with classical Twain wit.

Of particular interest, historically, are Twain's references to Cecil Rhodes in Australia and South Africa, the in-depth description of 'Thugs' and 'Thuggee' in India and the Boer War period and diamonds in South Africa.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:44) Chapter 02

(00:45:20) Chapter 03

(01:13:23) Chapter 04

(01:31:59) Chapter 05

(01:44:42) Chapter 06

(02:02:21) Chapter 07

(02:16:58) Chapter 08

(02:34:17) Chapter 09

(02:54:13) Chapter 10

(03:03:44) Chapter 11

(03:15:47) Chapter 12

(03:26:06) Chapter 13

(03:45:27) Chapter 14

(03:55:34) Chapter 15

(04:06:13) Chapter 16

(04:19:59) Chapter 17

(04:30:37) Chapter 18

(04:47:46) Chapter 19

(05:03:05) Chapter 20

(05:15:19) Chapter 21

(05:33:12) Chapter 22

(05:52:12) Chapter 23

(06:06:20) Chapter 24

(06:21:47) Chapter 25

(06:41:29) Chapter 26

(06:53:41) Chapter 27

(07:15:02) Chapter 28

(07:30:19) Chapter 29

(07:44:25) Chapter 30

(07:54:23) Chapter 31

(08:05:46) Chapter 32

(08:20:12) Chapter 33

(08:33:30) Chapter 34

(08:41:03) Chapter 35

(08:52:29) Chapter 36

(09:06:03) Chapter 37

(09:26:14) Chapter 38

(09:44:48) Chapter 39

(10:08:48) Chapter 40

(10:24:53) Chapter 41

(10:39:44) Chapter 42

(10:52:56) Chapter 43

(11:15:12) Chapter 44

(11:30:02) Chapter 45

(11:51:07) Chapter 46

(12:14:32) Chapter 47

(12:37:17) Chapter 48

(12:56:26) Chapter 49

(13:24:37) Chapter 50

(13:43:36) Chapter 51

(14:00:45) Chapter 52

(14:21:13) Chapter 53

(14:40:23) Chapter 54

(14:57:26) Chapter 55

(15:16:20) Chapter 56

(15:29:17) Chapter 57

(15:41:00) Chapter 58

(16:13:03) Chapter 59

(16:42:12) Chapter 60

(17:03:27) Chapter 61

(17:26:51) Chapter 62

(17:50:35) Chapter 63

(18:05:12) Chapter 64

(18:24:55) Chapter 65

(18:39:57) Chapter 66

(18:57:10) Chapter 67

(19:25:15) Chapter 68

(19:47:20) Chapter 69

(20:08:53) Chapter 70

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In Defense of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

September 16, 2022

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107m

In Defense of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain audiobook.

Genre: biography

In Defense of Harriet Shelley is Mark Twain's sharp, meticulously argued case for a woman history has often treated as a footnote - and a villain. Taking aim at popular biographies of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Twain reopens the story of Shelley's first marriage to Harriet Westbrook Shelley and challenges the comfortable legends that excuse the famous poet while condemning the young wife he left behind. With a satirist's bite and a lawyer's patience, Twain sifts through quoted passages, assumptions, and secondhand gossip, exposing how reputations are built, how moral blame gets assigned, and how easily a biographical narrative can harden into 'truth.' At the center is Harriet herself: a real person caught between public mythmaking and private suffering, judged by standards that seem designed to protect genius at any cost. As Twain presses his cross-examination, the listener is drawn into a larger conflict about fairness, gendered double standards, and the ethics of storytelling - who gets defended, who gets dismissed, and what we owe the dead when we write their lives.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:31:33) Chapter 2

(01:03:13) Chapter 3

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