The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck BROOKS (1886 - 1963) <br />Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography <br /> <br />Read by: Lucretia B. in English <br /> <br />Chapters: <br />00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - Chapter I - Introductory: Mark Twain's Despair, Part 1 <br />00:31:26 - 02 - 02 - Chapter I - Introductory: Mark Twain's Despair, Part 2 <br />01:07:51 - 03 - 03 - Chapter II - The Candidate for Life, Part 1 <br />01:40:12 - 04 - 04 - Chapter II - The Candidate for Life, Part 2 <br />02:19:10 - 05 - 05 - Chapter III - The Gilded Age, Part 1 <br />02:50:26 - 06 - 06 - Chapter III - The Gilded Age, Part 2 <br />03:21:10 - 07 - 07 - Chapter IV - In the Crucible, Part 1 <br />04:00:47 - 08 - 08 - Chapter IV - In the Crucible, Part 2 <br />04:40:10 - 09 - 09 - Chapter V - The Candidate for Gentility, Part 1 <br />05:18:37 - 10 - 10 - Chapter V - The Candidate for Gentility, Part 2 <br />06:01:19 - 11 - 11 - Chapter VI - Everybody's Neighbor, Part 1 <br />06:30:23 - 12 - 12 - Chapter VI - Everybody's Neighbor, Part 2 <br /> <br />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) <br /> <br />More information: <a href="http://librivox.org/the-ordeal-of-mark-twain-by-van-wyck-brooks/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://librivox.org/the-ordeal-of-mark-twain-by-van-wyck-brooks/</a> <br /> <br />LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (<a href="https://librivox.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://librivox.org/</a>)