Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Insomnia downloads of the week

Librivox has some wonderful audiobooks and essays from Mark Twain, including this one posted today:

  • Wikipedia - The Awful German Language
  • LibriVox’s The Awful German Language Internet Archive page
  • Zip file of the entire book 30.1MB

  • or other gems such as:


    1. Twain, Mark. "30,000 Dollar Bequest, The" (in "30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories, The") · (readers)
    2. Twain, Mark. "About Play-Acting" (in "Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories, The") · (readers)
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    4. Twain, Mark. "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A (version 2)" · (readers)
    5. Twain, Mark. "Cure for the Blues, A" (in "30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories, The") · (readers)
    6. Twain, Mark. "Curious Book, The" (in "30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories, The") · (readers)
    7. Twain, Mark. "Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches, The" · (readers)
    8. Twain, Mark. "Danger of Lying in Bed, The" (in "30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories, The") · (readers)
    9. Twain, Mark. "Dick Baker's Cat" (in "Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales") · (readers)
    10. Twain, Mark. "Diplomatic Pay and Clothes" (in "Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories, The") · (readers)
    11. Twain, Mark. "Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?" (in "30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories, The") · (readers)
    12. Twain, Mark. "Dog's Tale, A" · (readers)
    two facts you probably don't know about Twain:

    He wrote a sympathetic biography of Joan of Arc (something surprising considering he was an agnostic who hated hypocrites, especially religious ones).

    And he defended the Philippines against American aggression.



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