Mark Twain Speaking
ISBN: 9781587297199
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Iowa Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Speeches addresses etc. American.;

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.

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.

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