Mark Twain Speaking [Hardcover]

Mark Twain (Author), Paul Fatout (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1976

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.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Paul Fatout taught in the English department at Purdue University for thirty-eight years before retiring in 1965. 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 688 pages
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877450560
• ISBN-13: 978-0877450566
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #658,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.