The Ordeal of Mark Twain
Author(s): Van Wyck Brooks
Genre(s): *non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Narrators: Lucretia B.
Number of Chapters: 22
Length: 12 hours and 54 minutes
Language: English
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)
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The audiobook The Ordeal of Mark Twain falls under the genres of *non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography. It is written by Van Wyck Brooks.