Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 1
Mark Twain
105 chapters · 12 h 6 min · English
Read by John Greenman
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Spanning the time between 1872 and the year before he died, this collection of after-dinner speeches, random thoughts to "the press", etc. clearly documents, once again, the truly eclectic mind of Samuel Clemens. It also demonstrates how he dealt with adulation, compliments and notoriety...head on! This collection is a treasure-trove of Twain sayings, witticisms and pronouncements on a huge galaxy of issues and concerns in his life. (Summary by John Greenman)
Chapters
1 Introduction 3 min 2 Preface 2 min 3 The Story of a Speech 26 min 4 Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims 15 min 5 Compliments and Degrees 9 min 6 Books, Authors and Hats 18 min 7 Dedication Speech 2 min 8 Die Schrecken Der Deuschen Sprache (The Horrors of the German Language) 8 min 9 German for the Hungarians 4 min 10 A New German Word 1 min 11 Unconscious Plagiarism 5 min 12 The Weather 9 min 13 The Babies 9 min 14 Our Children and Great Discoveies 3 min 15 Educating Theatre-goers 5 min 16 The Educational Theatre 4 min 17 Poets as Policemen 2 min 18 Pudd'nhead Wilson Dramatized 2 min 19 Daly Theatre 7 min 20 The Dress of Civilized Woman 3 min 21 Dress Reform and Copyright 8 min 22 College Girls 2 min 23 Girls 3 min 24 The Ladies 8 min 25 Woman's Press Club 3 min 26 Votes for Women 5 min 27 Woman-An Opinion 5 min 28 Advice to Girls 2 min 29 Taxes and Morals 10 min 30 Tamany and Croker 6 min 31 Municipal Corruption 8 min 32 Municipal Government 8 min 33 China and the Philippines 2 min 34 Theoretical Morals 10 min 35 Layman's Sermon 7 min 36 University Settlement Society 6 min 37 Public Education Association 5 min 38 Education and Citizenship 7 min 39 Courage 2 min 40 The Dinner to Mr. Choate 4 min 41 On Stanley and Livingstone 5 min 42 Henry M. Stanley 4 min 43 Dinner to Mr. Jerome 3 min 44 Henry Irving 5 min 45 Dinner to Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie 6 min 46 Introducing Nye and Riley 6 min 47 Dinner to Whitelaw Reid 7 min 48 Rogers and Railroads 11 min 49 The Old-fashioned Printer 7 min 50 Society of American Authors 4 min 51 Reading-Room Opening 3 min 52 Literature 3 min 53 Disappearance of Literature 6 min 54 The New York Press Club Dinner 2 min 55 The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling 8 min 56 Spelling and Pictures 16 min 57 Books and Burglars 3 min 58 Authors' Club 5 min 59 Booksellers 6 min 60 Mark Twain's First Appearance 5 min 61 Morals and Memory 24 min 62 Queen Victoria 5 min 63 Joan of Arc 14 min 64 Accident Insurance-etc 5 min 65 Osteopathy 7 min 66 Water-Supply 3 min 67 Mistaken Indentity 6 min 68 Cats and Candy 4 min 69 Obituary Poetry 2 min 70 Cigars and Tobacco 4 min 71 Billiards 2 min 72 The Union Right and Wrong 6 min 73 An Ideal French Address 4 min 74 Statistics 4 min 75 Galveston Orphan Bazaar 5 min 76 SanFrancisco Earthquake 2 min 77 Charity and Actors 3 min 78 Russian Republic 2 min 79 Russian Sufferers 12 min 80 Watterson and Twain as Rebels 4 min 81 Robert Fulton Fund 9 min 82 Fulton Day, Jamestown 10 min 83 Lotos Club Dinner in Honor of Mark Twain 8 min 84 Copyright 14 min 85 In Aid of the Blind 20 min 86 Dr. Mark Twain, Farmeopath 8 min 87 Missouri University Speech 5 min 88 Business 8 min 89 Carnegie the Benefactor 3 min 90 On Poetry, Veracity, and Suicide 7 min 91 Welcome Home 15 min 92 An Undelivered speech 8 min 93 Sixty-Seventh Birthday 22 min 94 To The Whitefriars 15 min 95 The Ascot Gold Cup 4 min 96 The Savage Club Dinner 14 min 97 General Miles and the Dog 6 min 98 When in Doubt, Tell the Truth 8 min 99 The Day We Celebrate 5 min 100 Independence Day 15 min 101 Americans and the English 7 min 102 About London 10 min 103 Princeton 1 min 104 The St. Louis Harbor-Boat "Mark Twain" 2 min 105 Seventieth Birthday 20 min
