Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 1

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) (0 hr 6 min)

Kapitel

Introduction	3:13	Gelesen von John Greenman
Preface	1:53	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Story of a Speech	25:42	Gelesen von John Greenman
Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims	15:27	Gelesen von John Greenman
Compliments and Degrees	9:24	Gelesen von John Greenman
Books, Authors and Hats	17:53	Gelesen von John Greenman
Dedication Speech	2:06	Gelesen von John Greenman
Die Schrecken Der Deuschen Sprache (The Horrors of the German Language)	7:46	Gelesen von John Greenman
German for the Hungarians	3:49	Gelesen von John Greenman
A New German Word	1:24	Gelesen von John Greenman
Unconscious Plagiarism	5:28	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Weather	8:49	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Babies	8:35	Gelesen von John Greenman
Our Children and Great Discoveies	3:11	Gelesen von John Greenman
Educating Theatre-goers	4:34	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Educational Theatre	4:13	Gelesen von John Greenman
Poets as Policemen	1:50	Gelesen von John Greenman
Pudd'nhead Wilson Dramatized	1:39	Gelesen von John Greenman
Daly Theatre	6:47	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Dress of Civilized Woman	3:00	Gelesen von John Greenman
Dress Reform and Copyright	8:17	Gelesen von John Greenman
College Girls	2:23	Gelesen von John Greenman
Girls	3:12	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Ladies	8:24	Gelesen von John Greenman
Woman's Press Club	2:50	Gelesen von John Greenman
Votes for Women	5:14	Gelesen von John Greenman
Woman-An Opinion	5:27	Gelesen von John Greenman
Advice to Girls	1:58	Gelesen von John Greenman
Taxes and Morals	9:40	Gelesen von John Greenman
Tamany and Croker	6:13	Gelesen von John Greenman
Municipal Corruption	8:12	Gelesen von John Greenman
Municipal Government	8:22	Gelesen von John Greenman
China and the Philippines	2:11	Gelesen von John Greenman
Theoretical Morals	10:01	Gelesen von John Greenman
Layman's Sermon	6:48	Gelesen von John Greenman
University Settlement Society	5:44	Gelesen von John Greenman
Public Education Association	4:48	Gelesen von John Greenman
Education and Citizenship	7:06	Gelesen von John Greenman
Courage	2:05	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Dinner to Mr. Choate	4:00	Gelesen von John Greenman
On Stanley and Livingstone	5:22	Gelesen von John Greenman
Henry M. Stanley	4:20	Gelesen von John Greenman
Dinner to Mr. Jerome	3:05	Gelesen von John Greenman
Henry Irving	4:34	Gelesen von John Greenman
Dinner to Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie	5:57	Gelesen von John Greenman
Introducing Nye and Riley	6:00	Gelesen von John Greenman
Dinner to Whitelaw Reid	7:28	Gelesen von John Greenman
Rogers and Railroads	11:16	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Old-fashioned Printer	7:00	Gelesen von John Greenman
Society of American Authors	4:24	Gelesen von John Greenman
Reading-Room Opening	3:06	Gelesen von John Greenman
Literature	3:26	Gelesen von John Greenman
Disappearance of Literature	6:26	Gelesen von John Greenman
The New York Press Club Dinner	2:25	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling	7:34	Gelesen von John Greenman
Spelling and Pictures	16:15	Gelesen von John Greenman
Books and Burglars	2:52	Gelesen von John Greenman
Authors' Club	5:07	Gelesen von John Greenman
Booksellers	5:33	Gelesen von John Greenman
"Mark Twain's First Appearance"	4:55	Gelesen von John Greenman
Morals and Memory	24:00	Gelesen von John Greenman
Queen Victoria	4:59	Gelesen von John Greenman
Joan of Arc	13:50	Gelesen von John Greenman
Accident Insurance-etc.	4:53	Gelesen von John Greenman
Osteopathy	6:32	Gelesen von John Greenman
Water-Supply	2:39	Gelesen von John Greenman
Mistaken Indentity	6:04	Gelesen von John Greenman
Cats and Candy	3:36	Gelesen von John Greenman
Obituary Poetry	1:50	Gelesen von John Greenman
Cigars and Tobacco	4:07	Gelesen von John Greenman
Billiards	1:47	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Union Right and Wrong	6:09	Gelesen von John Greenman
An Ideal French Address	4:22	Gelesen von John Greenman
Statistics	3:56	Gelesen von John Greenman
Galveston Orphan Bazaar	5:25	Gelesen von John Greenman
SanFrancisco Earthquake	2:08	Gelesen von John Greenman
Charity and Actors	3:24	Gelesen von John Greenman
Russian Republic	2:25	Gelesen von John Greenman
Russian Sufferers	11:45	Gelesen von John Greenman
Watterson and Twain as Rebels	4:24	Gelesen von John Greenman
Robert Fulton Fund	8:53	Gelesen von John Greenman
Fulton Day, Jamestown	10:18	Gelesen von John Greenman
Lotos Club Dinner in Honor of Mark Twain	7:45	Gelesen von John Greenman
Copyright	14:26	Gelesen von John Greenman
In Aid of the Blind	19:32	Gelesen von John Greenman
Dr. Mark Twain, Farmeopath	7:53	Gelesen von John Greenman
Missouri University Speech	4:53	Gelesen von John Greenman
Business	7:42	Gelesen von John Greenman
Carnegie the Benefactor	2:41	Gelesen von John Greenman
On Poetry, Veracity, and Suicide	6:47	Gelesen von John Greenman
Welcome Home	14:39	Gelesen von John Greenman
An Undelivered speech	7:33	Gelesen von John Greenman
Sixty-Seventh Birthday	21:30	Gelesen von John Greenman
To The Whitefriars	14:39	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Ascot Gold Cup	3:37	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Savage Club Dinner	13:34	Gelesen von John Greenman
General Miles and the Dog	6:10	Gelesen von John Greenman
When in Doubt, Tell the Truth	7:42	Gelesen von John Greenman
The Day We Celebrate	5:16	Gelesen von John Greenman
Independence Day	15:19	Gelesen von John Greenman
Americans and the English	7:23	Gelesen von John Greenman
About London	9:59	Gelesen von John Greenman
Princeton	1:25	Gelesen von John Greenman
The St. Louis Harbor-Boat "Mark Twain"	2:16	Gelesen von John Greenman
Seventieth Birthday	19:33	Gelesen von John Greenman

Bewertungen

ged

(4 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

Brilliantly read as usual by Mr Greenman, however was it really necessary to speak the chapter headings and footings for every single chapter, even though some of them be only a couple of minutes long, this rather spoilt the enjoyment of the listen.

John Greenman is Mark Twain!

(5 stars)

lanternland

John Greenman is Mark Twain! He sounds more like Mark Twain than Mark Twain did! There are no existing recordings of Twain's voice. The closest thing we have is a recording by a contemporary Mark Twain imitator, William Gillette.

humorous and well read

(5 stars)

christopher melo

Mr. Greenman is far and away the best reader I have found on any audio book site.

Sounds like Twain to me.

(5 stars)

Donald R Miller

Excellent reading, and interesting speeches!