The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War
Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a series of letters, essays, and stories told in the first person by a droll, illiterate rube with a good measure of subtle common sense who commented on the events and fads of the day. Taking his character to the stage as a lecturer, Browne became an early-day prototype of what we now name a stand-up comedian. Artemus Ward was such a favorite of President Abraham Lincoln that the chief executive read one of the Ward stories to his assembled cabinet officers before getting down to the business of discussing the proposed Emancipation Proclamation. Browne’s writings became popular in England as well as in America, and he travelled to Britain to perform his Artemus Ward lectures and contribute to the comic magazine Punch. Browne contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of thirty-two in Southampton. (There was a real Artemus Ward, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.) ( Delmar H. Dolbier)
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | The Show is Confiscated | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:10:51 |
Play 02 | Thrilling Scenes in Dixie | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:09:10 |
Play 03 | Fourth of July Oration | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:09:26 |
Play 04 | The War Fever in Bladinsville | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:07:20 |
Play 05 | A War Meeting | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:09:57 |
Play 06 | The Draft in Bladinsville | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:11:46 |
Play 07 | Surrender of Cornwallis | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:09:06 |
Play 08 | Things in New York | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:10:01 |
Play 09 | Touching Letter - In Canada | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:09:24 |
Play 10 | The Noble Red Man - In Richmond | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:13:51 |
Play 11 | To the Prince of Wales | Delmar H Dolbier |
00:12:18 |