The Ordeal of Mark Twain


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This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens' increasing sense of pessimism to the repression of his creative spirit due largely to his mother and his wife. (Summary by Wikipedia and Lucretia B) (0 hr 54 min)

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01 - Chapter I - Introductory: Mark Twain's Despair, Part 1 31:26 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
02 - Chapter I - Introductory: Mark Twain's Despair, Part 2 36:25 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
03 - Chapter II - The Candidate for Life, Part 1 32:20 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
04 - Chapter II - The Candidate for Life, Part 2 38:58 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
05 - Chapter III - The Gilded Age, Part 1 31:16 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
06 - Chapter III - The Gilded Age, Part 2 30:44 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
07 - Chapter IV - In the Crucible, Part 1 39:37 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
08 - Chapter IV - In the Crucible, Part 2 39:23 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
09 - Chapter V - The Candidate for Gentility, Part 1 38:27 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
10 - Chapter V - The Candidate for Gentility, Part 2 42:42 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
11 - Chapter VI - Everybody's Neighbor, Part 1 29:04 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
12 - Chapter VI - Everybody's Neighbor, Part 2 30:16 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
13 - Chapter VII - The Playboy in Letters, Part 1 43:03 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
14 - Chapter VII - The Playboy in Letters, Part 2 44:06 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
15 - Chapter VIII - Those Extraordinary Twins, Part 1 29:49 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
16 - Chapter VIII - Those Extraordinary Twins, Part 2 28:50 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
17 - Chapter IX - Mark Twain's Humor, Part 1 32:27 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
18 - Chapter IX - Mark Twain's Humor, Part 2 33:24 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
19 - Chapter X - Let Somebody Else Begin, Part 1 38:21 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
20 - Chapter X - Let Somebody Else Begin, Part 2 37:56 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
21 - Chapter XI - Mustered Out, Part 1 32:42 Gelesen von Lucretia B.
22 - Chapter XI - Mustered Out, Part 2 33:02 Gelesen von Lucretia B.