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    American Icon Mark Twain: The Hidden History
    American Icon Mark Twain: The Hidden History
    American Icon Mark Twain: The Hidden History
    Audiobook10 hours

    American Icon Mark Twain: The Hidden History

    Written by Mark Twain

    Narrated by Geoffrey Giuliano

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    About this audiobook

    "The report of my death was an exaggeration. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. The secret of getting ahead is getting started." (Mark Twain)

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a uniquely American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel." We know the work but what about the great man behind it? In this well-told audiobook, Twain speaks about particulars of his turbulent life and times. A must-have addition to all university and school systems.

    GEOFFREY GIULIANO is the author of 32 internationally best-selling books published by the biggest publishers in the world from 1984 to today. He is also an acclaimed Hollywood film actor, director, designer, and is the voice on over 500 popular audiobooks.

    Series producer Avalon Giuliano in New York
    Produced by Alex Franchi in Milan
    Edited and mixed by Macc Kay in Bangkok
    ICON intern Eden Garret Giuliano
    Music by Audionautix

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateJul 16, 2019
    ISBN9781982766917
    American Icon Mark Twain: The Hidden History
    Author

    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

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