by admin | Apr 27, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Jan Kather on December 16, 2016 Last year American artist Charles Ray created a stir with his commissioned figurative sculpture Huck and Jim. Originally meant to be permanently installed along New York City’s High Line in the public plaza outside...
by admin | Apr 27, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Hamada Kassam on January 30, 2018 EDITOR’S NOTE: The following paper was originally on the program for the 8th International Conferences on the State of Mark Twain Studies, which took place this past August at Elmira College. Unfortunately,...
by admin | Apr 27, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Hamada Kassam on February 28, 2017 In The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain’s first bestseller and one of the most successful travel narratives in American literature, the acclaimed young author singled out and celebrated Damascus in his...
by admin | Apr 27, 2025 | The Study, Twain for Teachers
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on July 26, 2022 To The Country Sitting In Darkness: Mark Twain’s Satirical Debate On American Diplomacy (2022) The Culver Academies in northern Indiana have a proud tradition of producing Twainiacs. Hal...
by admin | Apr 27, 2025 | Quarry Farm
Originally posted by: Elise Johnson-Schmidt on June 29, 202 In 1868, Jervis Langdon, father-in-law of Mark Twain, purchased a simple farmhouse and the grounds that surrounded it as a retreat for his family. Later named Quarry Farm, it was regularly modified from the...