Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Salutary Platform Opinions - Hardcover

Twain, Mark

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9780060153533: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Salutary Platform Opinions

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ISBN 10: 0060153539 ISBN 13: 9780060153533

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1984

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Collects eighty-two of Twain's speeches, lectures, and other public utterances ranging in topic from cigars to the horrors of the German language, women to stage fright, and the sins of the press to causes of moral indignation

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About the Author:

Novelist, editor, and Mark Twain scholar Charles Neider (1915-2001) edited The Selected Letters of Mark Twain, The Travels of Mark Twain, and Life As I Find It: A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities.

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Delightful and valuable.... Chosen for their humor and human interest, the speeches vary from old time standards to lesser-known items (two appear for the first time).... These speeches provide a view of Twain's public personality, as well as his ideas about literature, current events, and some of his favorite subjects from cigars to Joan of Arc. (CHOICE)

Mark Twain, Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims reminds us how talented the humorist was as a speaker, starting with his first lecture, in San Francisco andon the Sandwich Island (Hawaii). Here is a collection of his most witty speeches. (Signals)

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