Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on August 15, 2019At the Center for Mark Twain Studies we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain’s first book. Sales of The Innocents Abroad began on August 10, 1869 and soon...
Originally posted by: Jeanne Campbell Reesman on August 29, 2019EDITOR’S NOTE: As of earlier this month, it has been 150 years since the publication of Mark Twain’s first book,The Innocents Abroad. We are marking the occasion with a series of short essays from Twain...
Originally posted by: Hilton Obenzinger on February 5, 2020EDITOR’S NOTE: August of 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mark Twain’s first book, The Innocents Abroad. We are celebrating the sesquicentennial with a series of short essays by scholars...
Originally posted by: Jeffrey Melton on March 25, 2022Each 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...
Originally posted by: Jeffrey Melton on September 10, 2019 EDITOR’S NOTE: As of last month, it has been 150 years since the publication of Mark Twain’s first book, The Innocents Abroad. We are marking the occasion with a series of short essays from Twain scholars who...
Originally posted by: Harold H. Hellwig on December 16, 2019 EDITOR’S NOTE: August of 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mark Twain’s first book, The Innocents Abroad. We celebrate the occasion with a series of short essays by Twain scholars who...
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...
Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) is one of the least widely read and most critically-reviled books in Mark Twain’s corpus, and justifiably so. It was written under duress, on the brink of financial crisis. Twain sought to stave off disaster by writing a three-quel. But, while...