Mark Twain Speaking

by Paul Fatout (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587297199
Publisher:	University of Iowa Press
Publication date:	09/01/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	720
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Paul Fatout was a professor of English at Purdue University. Among his many works are Mark Twain Speaks for Himself, Indiana Canals, Letters of a Civil War Surgeon, Mark Twain in Virginia City, Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit, Meadow Lake: Gold Town, Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Lexicographer, Canal's Heyday (Tippecanoe Tales), Artemus Ward among the Mormons, The Twain-Cable Readings in Indiana, Mark Twain's First Lecture: A Parallel (His Miscellanea), and Mr. Lincoln Goes to Washington. He died in 1982.

Table of 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
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 James W. 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 Association
22 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 Dinner
46 New England Society
47 Fréchette 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
Rejected Version of Typothetae Speech
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 Alumni Association
70 Introducing Nye and Riley
71 The Long Clam
72 The Grand Tour—1. 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, Punch
93 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 Causes of Our Present Municipal Corruption
116 Hebrew Technical School for Girls
117 University Settlement Society
118 Lincoln Celebration
119 Remarks on Osteopathy
120 New York Senate
121 Training That Pays
122 Lotos Club
123 Poughkeepsie Eastman Club
124 University Club
125 Missouri Society
126 Speech-Making Experiment
127 Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany
128 Two Political Speeches
129 Mock Eulogy of Tammany
130 Good Citizenship Association
131 Lotos Club
132 Scotch Humor
133 Yale Alumni Association
134 Society of Medical Jurisprudence
135 Hannibal High School Graduation
136 University of Missouri Commencement
137 Harbor Boat Christening
138 Eugene Field Commemoration
139 Speech on Art
140 Lotos Club
141 Sixty-seventh Birthday Dinner
142 Seventieth Birthday Dinner
143 Benefit Matinee for Russian Sufferers
144 Society of Illustrators
145 Tuskegee Institute Meeting
146 Manhattan Dickens Fellowship
147 Ends of the Earth Club
148 Introducing Dr. Henry Van Dyke
149 West Side Branch Y.M.C.A.
150 Barnard College Reception
151 Freundschaft Society
152 New York State Association for the Blind
153 Women's University Club Reception
154 Club A Dinner
155 Robert Fulton Monument Association
156 San Francisco Relief Meeting
157 Billiards Exhibition
158 Associated Press
159 Concert Debut of Clara Clemens
160 Interview
161 Remarks on Copyright
162 Burlesque Temperance Lecture
163 Reminiscences of Longfellow and Others
164 Curtain Speech
165 Actors Fund Fair
166 Government House, Annapolis
167 Interview
168 Royal Garden Party
169 Our Guest
170 Lord Mayor's Dinner
171 The Day We Celebrate
172 Savage Club
173 Lord Mayor's Dinner, Liverpool
174 Interview
175 Fulton Day
176 Bishop Speech
177 Curtain Speech
178 Associated Societies of Engineers
179 Pleiades Club
180 Lotos Club
181 Pilgrims Club
182 Garrison Children, Bermuda
183 Interview
184 Humorists and Cartoonists
185 Curtain Speech
186 C.C.N.Y. Dedication
187 Associated Alumni of C.C.N.Y.
188 American Booksellers Association
189 Queen Victoria—an American Tribute
190 Opening of the Mark Twain Library
191 New York Postgraduate Medical School
192 Lotos Club
193 Henry H. Rogers Dinner
194 William Travers Jerome Dinner
195 Misses Tewksbury's School Graduation
Mark Twain Speaking: A Chronology
Index

Editorial Reviews

In his lifetime, Mark Twain was perhaps as renowned for his public speaking as he was for his writing. . . . Since we, unfortunately, have no recordings of what he said, the speeches themselves are invaluable—-and Fatout’s book is an incredible collection of what has survived.”—-John C. Bird, editor, The Mark Twain Annual

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