Alonzo Fitz & Other Stories by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

Alonzo Fitz & Other Stories by Mark Twain audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Alonzo Fitz & Other Stories gathers a handful of Mark Twain's sharpest late-career short pieces - brisk, mischievous, and built to be read aloud. Across these compact tales and sketches, Twain turns everyday American confidence into comedy: earnest people chase grand plans, argue over respectable opinions, and stumble into consequences they never imagined. In the title story, a seemingly ordinary situation swells into a comic tangle of assumptions and reactions, showing how quickly pride and certainty can outrun common sense. Elsewhere, Twain plays with exaggeration, improbable coincidences, and mock-serious logic to poke at fashion, public judgment, and the self-important tone of modern progress. Each story is short on patience for pretension and long on wit - the kind that lands as a joke, then lingers as a critique. Whether he is describing a community in uproar or a single character making a spectacularly human mistake, Twain keeps the pace quick, the language clean and punchy, and the target unmistakable: the ways people fool themselves, especially when they are trying hardest to look wise.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:43:35) Chapter 02

(00:59:33) Chapter 03

(01:15:03) Chapter 04

(01:28:18) Chapter 05

(01:56:44) Chapter 06

(02:12:30) Chapter 07

(02:22:02) Chapter 08

(02:28:41) Chapter 09

(02:43:43) Chapter 10

(02:51:28) Chapter 11

(02:59:27) Chapter 12

(03:08:13) Chapter 13

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