Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
Written by Mark Twain
Narrated by Maria Tolkacheva
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About this audiobook
Mark Twain (Samuel Lengkhorn Clemens) was an outstanding American writer, journalist, and public figure. "Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man" by Mark Twain was published in "Sketches New and Old " in 1875. In this story the author speculates on the family happiness.
The author receives a letter from a young lady named Aurelia. She is in a quandary as to whether she should marry a young gentleman, who has a problem of loosing his body parts. The first time the very day before the wedding he catches smallpox and his face gets pitted. After that, the young man loses one of his legs. Finally, he loses his eye before the wedding-day.
After Mark Twain has thought the matter over carefully he gives the lady a piece of advice. Which one? Get acquainted with "Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man" to know it! This story combines wise thoughts and humour. Enjoy the brilliant style of the outstanding American writer. "Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man" will put you in good spirits.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.
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