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Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field - Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspondent
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This work brings new understanding of the life and work of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) while living and traveling abroad. Twain and fellow humorist Eugene Field experienced a wide variety of people, places and things together and author Henry Fischer brings them together here, for the first time. - Summary by John Greenman
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Editor’s Note
06:34 - Chapter 2
Author’s Preface
12:23 - Chapter 3
How Mark Would Safeguard England
13:29 - Chapter 4
Mark Philosophized on Willie
01:47 - Chapter 5
Mark - Regicide
03:32 - Chapter 6
The Funniest Speech Mark Ever Gave
10:27 - Chapter 7
Monarchical Atavism
01:44 - Chapter 8
Democratic Mark and Austrian Aristocracy
03:05 - Chapter 9
Phil Sheridan's Friend
03:41 - Chapter 10
"Elizabeth was a He", said Mark
14:20 - Chapter 11
Mark, the Sleight-of-hand Man
02:32 - Chapter 12
Mark and the Imperial Mistress
02:46 - Chapter 13
Mark on Lynch Law
05:15 - Chapter 14
Recollections of King Charles and Grant
03:28 - Chapter 15
Mark Missed Gallows-land
03:34 - Chapter 16
Think of Her Sorrow
01:48 - Chapter 17
Breaking the News Gently
02:46 - Chapter 18
Dukes and Unborn Car Horses
00:56 - Chapter 19
"Pa Used to Be a Terrible Man"
01:03 - Chapter 20
Mark on the Berlin Cops
05:28 - Chapter 21
The Sausage Room
05:04 - Chapter 22
Mark's Glimpse of Schopenhauer
15:07 - Chapter 23
"Murderer" Blücher in Oxford
03:05 - Chapter 24
Mark's Human Side
02:38 - Chapter 25
An Australian Surprise
02:38 - Chapter 26
Mark in France and Italy
02:33 - Chapter 27
Why Mark Wouldn't Like to Die Abroad
03:33 - Chapter 28
The Left Hand Didn't Know
01:25 - Chapter 29
American Humorists
01:19 - Chapter 30
Telepathy or Suggestion
03:08 - Chapter 31
Trying to Be Serious Didn't Work
01:37 - Chapter 32
Assorted Beauties
02:09 - Chapter 33
Mark's Children Knew Him
02:18 - Chapter 34
Mark, Dogs, Dagoes, and Cats
02:22 - Chapter 35
The Tragedy of Genius
02:23 - Chapter 36
Kilties and the Lassie
03:02 - Chapter 37
A Wise Provision of Providence
02:15 - Chapter 38
The Awful German Language
02:07 - Chapter 39
Artist or Photographer
02:28 - Chapter 40
Mark Interviewed the Barber about Harry Thaw
05:05 - Chapter 41
His Portrait—a Mirror
02:09 - Chapter 42
Mark, Bismarck, Lincoln, and Darwin
07:15 - Chapter 43
Mark at the Stock Exchange, Vienna
01:21 - Chapter 44
Mark and the Prussian Lieutenant
03:22 - Chapter 45
Mark Studies the Costermonger Language
02:25 - Chapter 46
That Beautiful Funeral
02:06 - Chapter 47
Ada's Beast of a Man
01:56 - Chapter 48
Jealousy in Lowland
01:36 - Chapter 49
The Troubles of Liz
02:17 - Chapter 50
The French Madame
06:18 - Chapter 51
The Great Disappointment
05:05 - Chapter 52
Rheumatism and Prodding
01:32 - Chapter 53
On Literary Friendships
02:05 - Chapter 54
Bayard Taylor's German
02:11 - Chapter 55
Genius in Extremis
04:20 - Chapter 56
What May Happen to You after You Are Dead
04:56 - Chapter 57
Kings in Their Birthday Suits
00:55 - Chapter 58
Mark on Lincoln's Humanity
05:43 - Chapter 59
An English Lover of Kings and a Hater
07:09 - Chapter 60
Mark Got Arrested in Berlin
06:08 - Chapter 61
Books that Weren't Written
05:29 - Chapter 62
Mark Enjoyed Other Humorists
02:15 - Chapter 63
Mark and the English Hack-writer
02:31 - Chapter 64
Mark Thought Joan of Arc Was Slandered
03:31 - Chapter 65
Running Amuck—Almost
00:39 - Chapter 66
Mark's Idiomatic Gems
01:23 - Chapter 67
Mark and the Girls that Love a Lord
07:35 - Chapter 68
Mark's Martyrdom
02:48 - Chapter 69
Slang Not in Mark's Dictionary
02:59 - Chapter 70
Mark "No Gentleman"
02:03 - Chapter 71
Mark, Poetry, and Art
01:49 - Chapter 72
Mark Sheds Light on English History
06:52 - Chapter 73
Mark Explains Dean Swift
04:15 - Chapter 74
Mark in Tragedy and Comedy
07:38 - Chapter 75
"Ambition Is a Jade that More Than One Man Can Ride"
03:32 - Chapter 76
Mark as a Translator
03:39 - Chapter 77
Mark in England
02:54 - Chapter 78
Why Mark Was Uncomfortable in the King of Sweden's Presence
01:46 - Chapter 79
Mark's Idea of High Art
04:28 - Chapter 80
Mark Meets King Leopold—Almost
03:26 - Chapter 81
Sizing Up of Aristocracy by Mark
05:01 - Chapter 82
The Bald-headed Woman
01:37 - Chapter 83
When a Publisher Dines and Wines You
06:14 - Chapter 84
Mark in Politics
01:08 - Chapter 85
Mark on "Royal Honors"
04:33 - Chapter 86
American Women the Prettiest
01:50 - Chapter 87
Where Tay Pay Isn't Tay Pay
01:24 - Chapter 88
The Man Who Didn't Get Used to Hanging
08:45 - Chapter 89
Stray Sayings of Mark
03:35 - Chapter 90
Eugene Field and His Troubles in Chicago
06:06 - Chapter 91
More of Eugene Field's Trials in London
04:59 - Chapter 92
Gene, a "Success of Curiosity"
04:30 - Chapter 93
Dire Consequences of American Horseplay
10:09 - Chapter 94
Field's Library of Humor
01:03 - Chapter 95
Those German Professors
01:57 - Chapter 96
Eugene Field and Northern Lore
03:39 - Chapter 97
Little Boy Blue
01:22