Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92
Mark Twain
Read by John Greenman
This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, when Twain took his family to Europe in June of 1891, he left with the knowledge that the McClure Syndicate and W. M. Laffan of the New York Sun would pay him one thousand dollars each for six travel letters. Twain’s letters eventually appeared in numerous papers including the Chicago Sunday Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe in addition to the New York Sun. Readers of his “The Innocents Abroad” and “A Tramp Abroad” will remember his knack of viewing his discoveries with satirical and ironic twists. - Summary by John Greenman and Barbara Schmidt (3 hr 39 min)
Chapters
Mark Twain at Aix-Les Bains | 41:39 | Read by John Greenman |
Mark Twain at Bayreuth | 38:52 | Read by John Greenman |
Playing the Courier | 36:36 | Read by John Greenman |
An Austrian Health Factory | 35:52 | Read by John Greenman |
Mark Twain in the Cradle of Liberty | 29:17 | Read by John Greenman |
The Chicago of Europe | 36:45 | Read by John Greenman |