Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Curious Dream
    A Curious Dream
    A Curious Dream
    Audiobook22 minutes

    A Curious Dream

    Written by Mark Twain

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

    4/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    If you thought death was the great leveller... think again.

    The dream comes across a procession of the dead leaving their neglected graveyard for somewhere offering better conditions... and a conversation with one skeleton suggests that material wealth and status is still an obsession beyond the grave.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateAug 30, 2013
    ISBN9781467669443
    A Curious Dream
    Author

    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

    More audiobooks from Mark Twain

    Related to A Curious Dream

    Related audiobooks

    Classics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      José Donoso Saw the Future of Latin American Literature

      Nov 21, 2023

      American readers have largely forgotten the single greatest writer to come from the Latin American Boom: Chilean novelist José Donoso. The post José Donoso Saw the Future of Latin American Literature appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Four Haibun

      Sep 1, 2023

      I wrote a play, out cold in urgent care. Heated blankets toweling my sweated hair. When staged, the actress playing Mother held a wicker broom for acts two and three, with which she beat and beat the rug—a heavy tapestry rolled across the deck. It ju

      1 min read

    • Article

      This One Sky Day

      Apr 21, 2021

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 468 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Leone Ross Publisher Faber This is the sort of book that gets reviewers wheeling out words like “smorgasbord” or “cornucopia”. We’ll go with “kaleidoscopic”. This One Sky Day is a feast for the sens

      1 min read

    • Article

      When Rape Is a Plot Twist

      Oct 31, 2017

      When Rape Is a Plot Twist
      5 min read

    • Article

      Kirthana Ramisetti

      Jun 13, 2022

      For several years, I had a dream job reporting on entertainment and celebrity news. And even though my career combined my love of writing with my passion for pop culture, there was also an underlying yet persistent discontentment. If you’ve ever harb

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Lighter Side of Dan Chaon

      Apr 11, 2022

      I had a dystopian idea in the beginning, and in the end the dystopia caught up with me. The post The Lighter Side of Dan Chaon appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Next Of Kin

      Jul 25, 2019

      Our fates, as we can all agree, are written on our palms, dictated by life lines and other creases that are definitely meaningful. Dear Substance of Kin imagines a world where our destinies are etched onto our backs, in invisible lines that only a wa

      1 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems From Shards

      Jan 1, 2022

      woodpeckers make insects make themselves small as possible marooned in nucleus of another shattered discourse your burning building appears suddenly in this poem a wall collapses revealing a line of detectives waiting to see if the soul is betrayed w

      1 min read

    • Article

      Don’t Fear The Reaper

      Sep 12, 2021

      Is it possible to overcome the fear of death and learn to live with the knowledge that, as each day passes, we inch closer to the great inevitable? This is just one of many questions ably explored and answered by Australian psychologists Rachel and R

      2 min read

    • Article

      Don’t Fear The Reaper

      Sep 12, 2021

      Is it possible to overcome the fear of death and learn to live with the knowledge that, as each day passes, we inch closer to the great inevitable? This is just one of many questions ably explored and answered by Australian psychologists Rachel and R

      2 min read

    • Article

      Book Smart

      Jun 24, 2021

      Book Smart
      3 min read

    • Article

      Ten Trans Books I Love

      Jun 26, 2018

      Ten Trans Books I Love
      4 min read

    • Article

      From Cantares Mexicanos

      Dec 1, 2023

      Last night I dreamt that I was employed as a suicide prevention specialist in ancient Mesoamerica. We had no phones then so no hotline to call or anything like that. I held these gatherings going place to place for people to tell me their stories and

      3 min read

    • Article

      My Mother Once Gave Up Her Savior: Featured Poetry by Tina Chang

      May 14, 2019

      A lovely, ambitious poem about the mysteries of belief that takes place in the murky and mystical place of faith. The post My Mother Once Gave Up Her Savior: Featured Poetry by Tina Chang appeared first on The Millions.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Cruel Britannia

      Oct 9, 2019

      Cruel Britannia
      6 min read

    • Article

      WAVE THEORIES & ANTE-BODIES

      Jan 1, 2023

      How you see me is predicated on the body as foremost. Even after the grave. That is, how you grave me is predicated on everything after the body, a foremost conclusion you’ve made. My Catío grandmother is more than a brown & stolen thing. She befores

      2 min read

    • Article

      By KIM SHUCK

      Jul 5, 2022

      Kim Shuck’s most recent book is Exile Heart. She is the seventh poet laureate emerita of San Francisco. She has received honors including the 2019 PEN Oakland Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award and an inaugural Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of Am

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Extraordinary Enigmatic: Kathryn Davis’s ‘The Silk Road’

      Feb 15, 2019

      Complaining about indeterminacy in a Kathryn Davis novel is like complaining about William Gass’s love of alliteration or Bob Dylan’s singing voice. The post The Extraordinary Enigmatic: Kathryn Davis’s ‘The Silk Road’ appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Book Smart

      Jul 13, 2021

      Book Smart
      4 min read

    • Article

      First Editions from Winners of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize

      Sep 1, 2019

      selected by C. D. Wright ”Alicia Jo Rabins’ poems bring together the spiritual, the surrealist, and the erotic. Their wild imagination and fierce passion are aroused by hunger of the soul, and they use poetic intelligence as a desperate hammer to bre

      2 min read

    • Article

      Art As Dramedy

      Oct 15, 2022

      Art As Dramedy
      2 min read

    • Article

      First Editions from Winners of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize

      Jan 1, 2019

      “Likenesses is an origin myth, in that it attempts to create the world by naming it. But it’s too late in the game to imagine that whatever is named could simply be, without at the same time being—becoming—something else. Or many somethings elses…. I

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Outer Worlds

      Nov 7, 2019

      The Outer Worlds
      4 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Nov 1, 2018

      In a hotel in a small town in Norfolk I am listening to someonethrowing glass bottles into a metal bin: toss-shatter, toss-shatter.There are no other sounds; it’s a quiet afternoonbut the one tossing them has a sense of rhythm and I havea sense that

      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Curious Dream

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words