Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2, credited to Mark Twain, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2 by Mark Twain. Read in English by John Greenman This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and published by the University of Iowa Press. The speeches are in the Public Domain, and our thanks go to the University of Iowa for making them available for this Public Domain audio recording. They were compiled in the University of Iowa Press book entitled "Mark Twain Speaking" and are arranged, chronologically, from Twain's first authenticated public speech in 1864, to his last speech, exactly 7 months before he died. Extensive analysis (for instance how other publications interpreted identical interview sessions), notes, appendix and index are included in the printed work. - Summary by John Greenman

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2
• Author credits: Mark Twain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 128
• Listed recording duration: 20:20:24

Catalogue topics

• humor
• mark twain
• known speeches
• twain in society

Opening tracks: first 24 of 128

1. 000 - Introduction — 1:38
2. 001 - Presentation Speech - Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco, June 12, 1864 — 5:31
3. 002 - Sandwich Islands Lecture - First Given in San Francisco, October 2, 1866 — 42:40
4. 003 - Concluding Remarks - Congress Hall, San Francisco, December 10, 1866 — 7:09
5. 004 - Address to the Czar - Yalta, Russia, August 25, 1867 — 2:48
6. 005 - Pilgrim Life - Platt's Hall, San Francisco, April 14-15, 1868 — 6:58
7. 006 - Introductory Remarks - Mercantile Library, San Francisco, Juy 2, 1868 — 3:12
8. 007 - The American Vandal Abroad - Lyceum Season, November 17, 1868 — 37:56
9. 008 - Concluding Remarks - Protestant Orphan Asylum Benefit, Case Hall, Cleveland, January 22, 1869 — 3:54
10. 009 - The Reliable Contraband - New York Press Club Dinner, Elmonico's, June 5, 1869 — 8:23
11. 010 - Artemus Ward Lecture - Lecture Season 1871-72 — 21:38
12. 011 - Roughing It Lecture - Lecture Season, 1871-72; England, 1873 — 1:00:36
13. 012 - On Governor Nye - Steinway Hall, New York, January 24, 1872 — 1:14
14. 013 - Dinner Speech - The Aldine Dinner, St. James Hotel, New York, Early February, 1872 — 11:51
15. 014 - Dinner Speech - Whitefriars Club, London, ca. Ocotber 1872 — 5:32
16. 015 - After-Dinner Speech - Meeting of Americans, London, July 4, 1873 — 8:18
17. 016 - The Guests - St. Andrews Society Dinner, London, November 29, 1873 — 3:36
18. 017 - Introducing The Reverend Charles Kingsley - Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, ca. February 14, 1874 — 3:58
19. 018 - Dinner Speech - Massachusetts Press Association, Boston, February 17, 1874 — 7:57
20. 019 - Curtain Speech - Opening of The Gilded Age, Park Theatre, New York, September 16, 1874 — 5:18
21. 020 - Curtain Speech - One Hundredth Performance of The Gilded Age, Park Theatre, New York, Deccember 23, 1874 — 4:13
22. 021 - Introductory Remarks - Spelling Match, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, May 12, 1875 — 7:44
23. 022 - Political Speech - Republican Mass Meeting, Allyn Hall, Hartford, Spet. 30, 1876 — 7:17
24. 023 - Curtain Speech - Opening of Ah Sin, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, July 31, 1877 — 7:07

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