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The Boys Life of Mark Twain

by Albert Bigelow PAINE (1861 - 1937)

12 - Renewing an Old Ambition

Albert Bigelow Paine was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' (Mark Twain's) biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting ideas and material for a biography, for a few years before Twain's death in 1910. Six years later Paine published this "story of a man who made the world laugh and love him". For those who have read or listened to Mark Twain's works, Paine's work is an invaluable resource to better understand Twain, the stories behind his stories and his life with those he loved and with whom he worked. (Summary by John Greenman)

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Listen next episodes of The Boys Life of Mark Twain:
13 - Learning the River , 14 - River Days , 15 - The Wreck of the 'Pennsylvania' , 16 - The Pilot , 17 - The End of Piloting , 18 - The Soldier , 19 - The Pioneer , 20 - The Miner , 21 - The Territorial Enterprise , 22 - 'Mark Twain' , 23 - Artemus Ward and Literary San Francisco , 24 - The Discovery of 'The Jumping Frog' , 25 - Hawaii and Anson Burlingame , 26 - Mark Twain, Lecturer , 27 - An Innocent Abroad, and Home Again , 28 - Olivia Langdon. Work on the 'Innocents' , 29 - The Visit to Elmira and its Consequences , 30 - The New Book and a Wedding , 31 - Mark Twain in Buffalo , 32 - At Work on 'Roughing It' , 33 - In England , 34 - A New Book and New English Triumphs , 35 - Beginning 'Tom Sawyer' , 36 - The New Home , 37 - 'Old Times', 'Sketches' and 'Tom Sawyer' , 38 - Home Pictures , 39 - Tramping Abroad , 40 - 'The Prince and the Pauper' , 41 - General Grant at Hartford , 42 - Many Investments , 43 - Back to the River with Bixby , 44 - A Reading-Tour with Cable , 45 - 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' , 46 - Pubisher to General Grant , 47 - The High-Tide of Fortune , 48 - Business Difficulties. Pleasanter Things , 49 - Kipling at Elmyra. Elsie Leslie. 'The Yankee' , 50 - The Machine. Good-by to Hartford. 'Joan' Is Begun , 51 - The Failure of Webster & Co. Around the World. Sorrow , 52 - European Economies , 53 - Mark Twain Pays His Debts , 54 - Return After Exile , 55 - A Prophet at Home , 56 - Honored by Missouri , 57 - The Close of a Beautiful Life , 58 - Mark Twain at Seventy , 59 - Mark Twain Arranges for his Biography , 60 - Working With Mark Twain , 61 - Dictation at Dublin, N.H. , 62 - A New Era of Billiards , 63 - Living With Mark Twain , 64 - A Degree from Oxford , 65 - The Removal to Redding , 66 - Life at Stormfield , 67 - The Death of Jean , 68 - Days in Bermuda , 69 - The Return to Redding , 70 - The Close of a Great Life