Mark Twain speaking / edited by Paul Fatout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Contributor:

Fatout, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Twain, Mark.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (721 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Selection of Texts; Abbreviations; 1. Presentation Speech; 2. Sandwich Islands Lecture; 3. Concluding Remarks; 4. Address to the Czar; 5. Woman-The Pride of Any Profession and the Jewel of Ours; 6. Pilgrim Life; 7. Introductory Remarks; 8. The American Vandal Abroad; 9. Concluding Remarks; 10. The Reliable Contraband; 11. Artemus Ward Lecture; 12. Roughing It Lecture; 13. On Governor Nye; 14. Aldine Dinner; 15. Savage Club; 16. Whitefriars Club; 17. Meeting of Americans; 18. The Ladies; 19. The Guests; 20. Introducing the Reverend Charles Kingsley

21. Massachusetts Press Association22. Curtain Speech; 23. Insurance Dinner; 24. Curtain Speech; 25. Spelling Match; 26. Republican Mass Meeting; 27. The Weather of New England; 28. Curtain Speech; 29. Putnam Phalanx; 30. Whittier Birthday Dinner; 31. Bayard Taylor Dinner; 32. Anglo American Club; 33. Stanley Club; 34. Stomach Club; 35. Introducing General Hawley; 36. Army of the Tennessee Reunion; 37. The Babies; 38. Holmes Breakfast; 39. Welcome to General Grant; 40. Republican Rally; 41. Funeral Oration; 42. Papyrus Club; 43. Army of the Potomac Reunion; 44. De Woman wid de Gold'n Arm

45. Montreal Dinner46. New England Society; 47. Frechette Dinner; 48. Saturday Morning Club; 49. New England Society; 50. Introducing George W. Cable; 51. On Adam; 52. Wheelmen; 53. Turncoats; 54. Mugwump Rally; 55. Mock Oration on the Dead Partisan; 56. On Speech-Making Reform; 57. Actors Fund Fair; 58. Huck Saves Jim; 59. The Compositor; 60. Remarks on Copyright; 61. Our Children; 62. Yankee Smith of Camelot; 63. Introducing Henry M. Stanley; 64. Stationers Board of Trade; 65. An Author's Soldiering; 66. Daly's Theatre; 67. Army and Navy Club; 68. Post-Prandial Oratory

69. Yale College Speech70. Introducing Nye and Riley; 71. The Long Clam; 72. The Grand Tour-I. The Sandwich Islands; 73. Fellowcraft Club; 74. The Humorist on the Copyright Question; 75. The Christening Yarn; 76. Curtain Speech; 77. On Foreign Critics; 78. National Wholesale Druggists Association; 79. Robert A. Pryor Dinner; 80. Lotos Club; 81. Brander Matthews Dinner; 82. Advice; 83. Cramp's Shipyard; 84. Curtain Speech; 85. Morals Lecture; 86. Interview; 87. His Grandfather's Old Ram; 88. Yorick Club; 89. Australian Institute of Journalists; 90. Savage Club; 91. Commemoration Luncheon

92. Punch, Brothers, Punch93. Interview; 94. Die Schrecken Der Deutschen Sprache; 95. Jubilee of the Hungarian Press,; 96. Savage Club; 97. Authors Club; 98. Whitefriars Club; 99. New Vagabonds Club; 100. The Day We Celebrate; 101. Remarks on Copyright; 102. Literature; 103. The Drama; 104. Reading Room Opening; 105. Travelogue; 106. Galveston Orphans Bazaar; 107. Woman's Press Club; 108. Lotos Club; 109. New York Press Club; 110. Society of American Authors; 111. The Disappearance of Literature; 112. Public Education Association; 113. Our City; 114. Introducing Winston S. Churchill

115. The Causes of Our Present Municipal Corruption

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-58729-719-1

OCLC:

294859561