The Trouble Begins At Eight Mark Twain's Lecture Tours

Lorch, Fred W.

Published by Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA, 1968

About this Item

This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has paatches of ground-in dirt and several spots of foxing, along with a couple of small edge nicks and a tiny chip. "The overseas performances were billed (presumably by Smythe) as "Mark Twain at Home." The North American performances were advertised simply as "Mark Twain Reading and Talking." MT used one basic talk the whole way around the world, a comic sermon on building up one's moral character by committing all 462 possible sins. This structure allowed him to use as illustrations many different pieces of material, from all phases of his career. These included the story of stealing an unripe watermelon, grandfather's old ram, the Mexican plug, the christening story, the whistling stammerer and, as the almost invariable wind up, the golden arm. In some stops he enacted the scene from Huck Finn in which Huck resolves to "go to hell" for his friend Jim; in some others he used a scene from Tom Sawyer Abroad. " (from Mark Twain Lib. Virginia Univ. ). Seller Inventory # A44744

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Trouble Begins At Eight Mark Twain's ...

Publisher: Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA

Publication Date: 1968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing.