“The human race has one really effective weapon: laughter.”

This collection of unabridged recordings of Mark Twain’s non-fiction includes his five great travelogues together with the memoirs of his time working as a pilot on the Mississippi, the profound essay written to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, and other short pieces of non-fiction.

The titles included here are:

• Old Times on the Mississippi
• Life on the Mississippi
• Chapters From My Autobiography
• The Innocents Abroad
• Roughing It
• A Tramp Abroad
• Following the Equator
• Some Rambling Notes of An Idle Excursion
• Christian Science
• Queen Victoria’s Jubilee
• My Platonic Sweetheart
• Editorial Wild Oats

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain (1835–1910), grew up along the banks of the Mississippi River, and his early experiences inspired many of his most famous works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Widely celebrated as America’s greatest humorist, Twain captured the spirit of a rapidly changing nation, and his sharp wit, keen eye for human nature, and gift for storytelling made him not only a beloved novelist but also a popular lecturer and essayist.

Twain's innovative style, character-driven storytelling and ability to interweave humour with profound social critique laid the groundwork for modern American literature and has inspired countless authors, including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Indeed, Hemingway famously declared that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”

This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.