Mark Twain's Speeches
de Mark Twain
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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E-157. Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper and Brothers, New York. 1910. 434 pgs. Frontispiece. First edition, first printing, with statement "Published June, 1910". Bound in red cloth with gilt vigenette present to the front board and gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (sunning present to the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In addition to being one of America's greatest novelists and humorists, Mark Twain (18351910) was a captivating public speaker. Once he became an established author with an enthusiastic following, Twain earned a substantial part of his income by conducting lecture tours. This compilation brings together a generous selection of his best speeches, highlighting his legendary wit and powers of wry observation. Twain was reputed to have possessed a modern stand-up comedian's mastery of timing and delivery and to have understood his medium completely. He preferred to give the impression that he was speaking off the cuff, but he also often handed out advance copies of his speeches to journalists to be sure that they would quote him accurately and get the jokes right. Among these speeches are his famous 70th birthday address delivered at a gala 1905 event in his honor at New York's Delmonico's Restaurant; his classic address on "Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims," with which he entertained a meeting of Philadelphia's New England Society in 1881; and the perennial favorite, "Horrors of the German Language," delivered at the Vienna Press Club in 1897. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Librería
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 65312
- Título
- Mark Twain's Speeches
- Autor
- Mark Twain
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- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- Lugar de publicación
- E-157
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