Mark Twain's Partner-Michael J. Phillips

Tales of the Long Bow by G. K. Chesterton.In short, they are all tall stories; and though tall stories may also be true stories, there is something in the very phrase appropriate to such a topsy-turvydom; for the logician will presumably class a tall story with a corpulent epigram or a long-legged essay.Featured on Society as I Have Found It.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Life In California, Excerpted From 'Roughing It' By Mark Twain by Mark Twain.The chapters contain in Twain style his observations and experiences in the state of California.Featured on Society as I Have Found It.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Personal Anthology of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare.This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. He was a man who seemed to know everything about human nature and as Orson Welles said ‘he speaks to everyone and we all claim him’. I know that it has been said that ‘it is impossible to be a great Shakespearian actor without an idiosyncratic and extraordinary voice’ and this may be so, but that does not preclude ordinary mortals from reading, hearing and enjoying Shakespeare.Featured on Society as I Have Found It.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

New Adventures of Alice (version 2 Dramatic Reading) by John Rae.After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book, John Rae began imagining what that girl would have gotten up to if he had done so. Telling these stories to his children over the years, where they were enthusiastically received, he finally decided to share them with the world. And here they are!Featured on Society as I Have Found It.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays by Mark Twain.In his inimitable way, Mark Twain gives sound advice about how to tell a story, then lets us in on some curious incidents he experienced, and finishes with a trip that proves life-changing.Featured on Society as I Have Found It.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Mark Twain's Partner by Michael J. Phillips.In 1861, a 26-year-old Sam Clemens "went west" with his older brother Orion. By that time he'd had some experience with publishing his thoughts in local newspapers and was beginning to collect and tell stories. Orion sent him to work a silver mine that he and Calvin Higbie owned. This Saturday Evening Post article, dated September 11, 1920, paints a vivid picture of the young, soon-to-be-famous author, through the eyes of his new friend and fellow silver miner, Higbie.Featured on Society as I Have Found It.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Human Boy Again by Eden Phillpotts.The author wrote two other books in this series: The Human Boy (1900) and The Human Boy And The War (1916). Eden Phillpotts was popular with the reading public and wrote prolifically novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and nonfiction.Featured on Society as I Have Found It.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 3 by Mark Twain.This third volume of Mark Twain's journal writings continues on eclectic and varied path established by the first two volumes. Included in this collection are works that appeared by themselves in magazines during Twain's lifetime, as well as essays taken by editors and Twain himself from Twain's larger works, and re-published in collections of his stories. This volume includes the following works: "Buying Gloves in Gibraltar", "The great revolution in Pitcairn", "A Gift from India" [including editor's notes about Twain’s need to go on the lecture circuit, his authorship of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc and other items], "From India to South Africa", "The Esquimau Maiden's Romance", "At the Appetitecure", "Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale", "Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?"Featured on Society as I Have Found It.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 1 by Mark Twain.Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) "Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia." 2.) "The Austrian Edison keeping school again" 3.) "The Canvasser's tale." 4.) "The Czar's Soliloquy." 5.) "English as She is Taught." 6.) "Grasses in the South." 7.) "Hawaii." 8.) "A Helpless Situation." 9.) "How I Escaped being Killed in a Duel." 10.) "Important to Whom it may Concern." 11.) "The Austrian Edison Keeping School Again" 12.) "Jim's Investments, and King Sollermun."Featured on Society as I Have Found It.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain.Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. The freshness, wonder and excitement of exploring a new world permeates Eve's thoughts as she takes great joy in her very existence and loves everything about it. To me this is obviously a posthumous love-letter to Twain's wife Olivia Langdon Clemens, or Livy, who died in June 1904, but others may disagree. Adam's diary is different and he comes across as a somewhat surly person who just wants to be alone and think his thoughts. he is also not very bright. How the two finally come together is what makes these stories so wonderful and expresses the love between a husband and wife. They were written as two separate works but fit together so well I have combined them into one here.Featured on Society as I Have Found It.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.