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THE WORKING DESK Book 4

By Imogen Tolliver · 4 parts · 14 h 11 min · English

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Hartford and New York, 1865 to 1900. Samuel Clemens sold books the way a sewing machine was sold — door to door, by canvassers working assigned territory from a sample book, months before a copy existed. He made a fortune at it, decided the publishers who paid him were cheating him, and set up in the trade himself. His house published the memoirs of a dying president and wrote the widow the largest royalty check anybody had yet written. Nine years later it failed, and a man of fifty-nine went around the world on a lecture platform to pay debts he was not obliged to pay. An account of a writing life run as a business, before international copyright and before bookstores reached most Americans. Covers Samuel Clemens, American Publishing Company of Hartford, and Charles L. Webster & Company.

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  1. Part 01

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  2. Part 02

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  3. Part 03

    4:00:05

  4. Part 04

    3:53:55

Books in this series

  1. THE WORKING DESK Book 1

    4 parts · 14 h 7 min

  2. THE WORKING DESK Book 2

    4 parts · 12 h 19 min

  3. THE WORKING DESK Book 3

    4 parts · 13 h 19 min

  4. THE WORKING DESK Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 11 min

  5. THE WORKING DESK Book 5

    4 parts · 13 h 49 min

  6. THE WORKING DESK Book 6

    4 parts · 14 h 23 min