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".
Chapters
1 00 - Preface 1 min 2 01 - The Family of John Clemens 8 min 3 02 - The New Home and Uncle Quarel's Farm 8 min 4 03 - School 6 min 5 04 - Education Out of School 13 min 6 05 - Tom Sawyer and his Band 19 min 7 06 - Closing School-Days 9 min 8 07 - The Apprentice 7 min 9 08 - Orion's Paper 7 min 10 09 - The Open Road 13 min 11 10 - A Wind of Change 9 min 12 11 - The Long Way to the Amazon 6 min 13 12 - Renewing an Old Ambition 8 min 14 13 - Learning the River 12 min 15 14 - River Days 13 min 16 15 - The Wreck of the 'Pennsylvania' 4 min 17 16 - The Pilot 10 min 18 17 - The End of Piloting 4 min 19 18 - The Soldier 8 min 20 19 - The Pioneer 7 min 21 20 - The Miner 18 min 22 21 - The Territorial Enterprise 7 min 23 22 - 'Mark Twain' 7 min 24 23 - Artemus Ward and Literary San Francisco 10 min 25 24 - The Discovery of 'The Jumping Frog' 11 min 26 25 - Hawaii and Anson Burlingame 7 min 27 26 - Mark Twain, Lecturer 15 min 28 27 - An Innocent Abroad, and Home Again 9 min 29 28 - Olivia Langdon. Work on the 'Innocents' 6 min 30 29 - The Visit to Elmira and its Consequences 7 min 31 30 - The New Book and a Wedding 6 min 32 31 - Mark Twain in Buffalo 6 min 33 32 - At Work on 'Roughing It' 5 min 34 33 - In England 4 min 35 34 - A New Book and New English Triumphs 7 min 36 35 - Beginning 'Tom Sawyer' 4 min 37 36 - The New Home 4 min 38 37 - 'Old Times', 'Sketches' and 'Tom Sawyer' 6 min 39 38 - Home Pictures 5 min 40 39 - Tramping Abroad 11 min 41 40 - 'The Prince and the Pauper' 5 min 42 41 - General Grant at Hartford 5 min 43 42 - Many Investments 6 min 44 43 - Back to the River with Bixby 4 min 45 44 - A Reading-Tour with Cable 6 min 46 45 - 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' 4 min 47 46 - Pubisher to General Grant 5 min 48 47 - The High-Tide of Fortune 4 min 49 48 - Business Difficulties. Pleasanter Things 15 min 50 49 - Kipling at Elmyra. Elsie Leslie. 'The Yankee' 9 min 51 50 - The Machine. Good-by to Hartford. 'Joan' Is Begun 15 min 52 51 - The Failure of Webster & Co. Around the World. Sorrow 13 min 53 52 - European Economies 6 min 54 53 - Mark Twain Pays His Debts 6 min 55 54 - Return After Exile 4 min 56 55 - A Prophet at Home 6 min 57 56 - Honored by Missouri 6 min 58 57 - The Close of a Beautiful Life 7 min 59 58 - Mark Twain at Seventy 10 min 60 59 - Mark Twain Arranges for his Biography 10 min 61 60 - Working With Mark Twain 7 min 62 61 - Dictation at Dublin, N.H 4 min 63 62 - A New Era of Billiards 6 min 64 63 - Living With Mark Twain 5 min 65 64 - A Degree from Oxford 4 min 66 65 - The Removal to Redding 6 min 67 66 - Life at Stormfield 6 min 68 67 - The Death of Jean 3 min 69 68 - Days in Bermuda 5 min 70 69 - The Return to Redding 3 min 71 70 - The Close of a Great Life 4 min
