Mark Twain Part 1: “You Want to Know What I Think of the Damned Human Race…”

2022-09-27

In 1910, seven days before the end of his extraordinary life, Mark Twain received a call from the future … Mark Twain did it all. He wrote bestselling novels that changed the world, he was a failed gold miner, a world traveller, and quite possibly the first stand-up comedian. In these episodes, you’ll learn: What made his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, so different from anything else that was being written at that time. What happened when he fought for the confederacy in the civil war....

In 1910, seven days before the end of his extraordinary life, Mark Twain received a call from the future …

Mark Twain did it all. He wrote bestselling novels that changed the world, he was a failed gold miner, a world traveller, and quite possibly the first stand-up comedian. In these episodes, you’ll learn:

What made his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, so different from anything else that was being written at that time.

What happened when he fought for the confederacy in the civil war.

And how he truly feels about the ‘human race’.

These episodes are funny, and tragic, and profound, just like his life was. Start the episode now and join the conversation.

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