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An Item Which the Editor Himself Could Not Understand

By Mark TwainNarrated by Mark Bowen
Length9m

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Our esteemed friend, Mr. John William Skae, of Virginia City, walked into the office where we are sub-editor at a late hour last night, with an expression of profound and heartfelt suffering upon his countenance, and, sighing heavily, laid the following item reverently upon the desk, and walked slowly out again. He paused a moment at the door, and seemed struggling to command his feelings sufficiently to enable him to speak, and then, nodding his head toward his manuscript, ejaculated in a broken voice, "Friend of mine – oh! how sad!" and burst into tears. We were so moved at his distress that we did not think to call him back and endeavor to comfort him until he was gone and it was too late. The paper had already gone to press, but knowing that our friend would consider the publication of this item important, and cherishing the hope that to print it would afford a melancholy satisfaction to his sorrowing heart, we stopped the press at once and inserted it in our columns…

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length9 mins
Narrated byMark Bowen
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 25, 2024
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Mark Twain-An Item Which the Editor Himself Could Not Understand_Intro
2An Item Which the Editor Himself Could Not Understand
3Mark Twain-An Item Which the Editor Himself Could Not Understand_Outro
The Launch of the Steamer CapitalMark Twain11m$1 · $0.00
Reisebilder und verschiedene SkizzenMark Twain9h 20m$1 · $0.00
SkizzenbuchMark Twain9h 12m4.0 (1.5K)$1 · $0.00
Abenteuer und Fahrten des Huckleberry FinnMark Twain10h 29m4.0 (1.4M)$1 · $0.00
Auf dem Mississippi; Nach dem fernen WestenMark Twain9h 21m4.3 (27)$1 · $0.00
Querkopf WilsonMark Twain7h 52m3.9 (39.3K)$1 · $0.00
Tom Sawyers Abenteuer und StreicheMark Twain8h 47m4.1 (1.1M)$1 · $0.00
"After" JenkinsMark Twain4m$1 · $0.00
On the Decay of the Art of LyingMark Twain14m4.1 (6.1K)$1 · $0.00
Wie Hadleyburg verderbt wurde: Nebst anderen ErzählungenMark Twain6h 34m4.3 (11)$1 · $0.00
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other StoriesMark Twain12h 57m4.0 (4.1K)$15 · $0.00
Tom Sawyers Neue AbenteuerMark Twain6h 34m3.6 (6.2K)$1 · $0.00
Meine Reise um die Welt. Erste AbteilungMark Twain7h 45m3.9 (41)$1 · $0.00
Im Gold- und SilberlandMark Twain9h 9m4.1 (143)$1 · $0.00
Adams Tagebuch, und andere ErzählungenMark Twain7h 8m4.2 (1.2K)$1 · $0.00
Leben auf dem MississippiMark Twain7h 52m4.0 (57K)$14 · $0.00
Treasure Book of Christmas Tales: 500+ Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & LegendsMark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. H. Murray, Washington Irving, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats540h 2m$0.99 · $0.00
Aus meiner KnabenzeitMark Twain58m4.0 (55)$1 · $0.00
ROUGHING ITMark Twain19h 27m4.1 (31.4K)$0.99 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$10 · $0.00
ShivajiRanjit Desai25h 13m4.6 (3.1K)$24 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
Five Little IndiansMichelle Good10h 34m4.5 (64.5K)$29 · $0.00
Lolth's WarriorR. A. Salvatore13h 20m4.6 (2.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m4.5 (359.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisHonoree Fanonne Jeffers29h 49m4.5 (58K)$8 · $0.00
Going PostalTerry Pratchett11h 23m4.5 (189.9K)$29 · $0.00
Glen AffricKarine Giebel22h 51m4.5 (3.2K)$46 · $0.00