Life and Work of Mark Twain

The Sense of Mark Twain's Humor (1x3)

Udgivelsesdato: Jan 01, 2002

Twain was frank in saying that as a humorist "I have always preached." His sermon consisted of "cracking up" idols of reverence to make room for truth. His well-known speech about the "cannibals" of the Sandwich Islands shows him tickling the audiences' funnybones as it pokes them in the ribs.