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17 de out. de 2022 · King Leopold's soliloquy : a defense of his Congo rule by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Publication date 1905 Topics Léopold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909
4 de out. de 2012 · LibriVox recording of Anti-imperialist writings, by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman.Creative Commons license: Public Domain Mark 1.0Image: http://commons.w...
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King Leopold's Soliloquy-A Defense of his Congo Rule (1905), by Mark Twain is an imaginary speech by King Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909), in which Leopold defends himself against the critics of his reign of the Congo Free State (present-day Democratic Republic of Congo.) During Leopold's reign of plunder, he extracted ivory and rubber from ...
Originally published in 1905, “King Leopold’s Soliloquy” by Mark Twain was written as political satire, and takes the form of a monologue in which King Leopold comes to his own defense of his merciless rule over the Congo Free State.
KING LEOPOLD'S SOLILOQUY "unspeakable Belgians" every one — and hoisted my flag, and "took in" a President of the United States, and got him to be the first to recognize it and salute it. Oh, well, let them blackguard me if they like; it is a deep satisfaction to me to
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Frederick Funstons Ehrung als Kriegsheld wurde von Mark Twain scharf kritisiert In der Ausgabe von 1905 enthaltene Darstellung verstümmelter Kongolesen unter der Herrschaft König Leopolds. Obwohl King Leopold’s Soliloquy titelgebend war, ist es in späteren Veröffentlichungen um diverse Essays, Berichte und Skizzen Twains zur Rolle der USA ...
