by admin | Apr 24, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Peter G. Beidler on April 9th, 2018 Virtually everyone has been wrong about Huck and Jim’s raft. To understand where it was built, how it was built, why it was built, what it looked like, what its original purpose was, and how it happened to be...
by admin | Apr 24, 2025 | The Study, Uncategorized
Originally posted by: Courtney Bates on October 5th, 2017 Mark Twain liked to imagine moments of speaking from beyond the grave. Perhaps the most well-known example is in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as Huck, Joe, and Tom—but mostly Tom—enjoy the melancholic, sweet,...
by admin | Apr 24, 2025 | Digital Editions
Originally posted by: Nathaniel Ball on September 20th,...
by admin | Apr 24, 2025 | 150 Years of Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain Circle
Each year we are proud to publish a series of essays conceived, written, and edited by members of the Mark Twain Circle of America, which, since 1986, has been the primary member organization devoted to the study of Twain’s “work, life, and times.” Naturally, the...
by admin | Apr 8, 2025 | Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Diandra Alvarado on March 15th, 2017 In 1867, Mark Twain addressed letters to Missouri expressing his disgust at the thought of women’s voting rights. He expressed that women should stick to their “feminine little trifles” that consisted of...