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Title:
Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions
Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper & Row, ©1984.
Physical Description:
xxi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
Collection of his speeches.
Contents:
The Sandwich Islands -- Woman -- American vandal abroad -- Jim Wolfe -- Stanley and Livingstone -- London -- Sins of the press -- There is hope for us yet -- Cigars -- Boggs -- New England weather -- The stirring campaign -- Whittier's birthday -- Nineteenth-century progress -- The corpse -- Science of Onanism -- General Grant and the babies -- Innocent plagiarism -- Republican rally -- Speechless -- The art of war -- Visit to Canada -- Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims -- A ragged ramshackle vow -- Advice to youth -- Woman, God bless Her! -- Adam -- Turncoats -- The dead partisan -- Plethora of speeches -- The compositor -- Author and publisher -- An author's soldiering -- Bench shows -- General Grant's English -- A speech for all occasions -- Reforming Yale -- Foolproof scheme -- Foreign critics -- The druggist -- Horrors of the German language -- The Ausgleich -- Statistics -- Masters of oratory -- On being morally perfect -- Playing a par -- Home conditions -- My real self -- Disappearance of literature -- Feeding a dog on its own tail -- New York -- The anti-doughnut party -- Women's rights -- Lincoln's birthday -- Humor -- Progress in medicine -- I have tried to do good -- How to reach seventy -- Lost opportunity -- Jack Van Nostrand -- Private and public morals -- Lying -- The gentleman -- Memories -- New York morals -- The sock -- A wandering address -- Simplified spelling -- Stage fright -- Copyright -- The watermelon -- Affection -- Fourth of July -- Wearing white clothes -- The Begum of Bengal -- Admiral Harrington -- General Miles and the dog -- I was born for a savage -- Caprices of memory -- Jumping to conclusions -- Dr. Clemens, Farmeopath -- Mr. Rogers.
Abstract:
Throughout America's Gilded Age, humorist and novelist Samuel Clemens, a. k. a. Mark Twain (1835-1910), was in great demand as a public speaker. This anthology, spanning the years from 1866 to 1909, collects 82 examples of Twain's best "spoken" work. Topics include American mythmaking, the Hawaiian Islands, masturbation, the art of war, New York morals, and stage fright.
ISBN:
9780060153533