Fall ‘Trouble Begins’ Lecture Series Begins October 2
Lecture is Wednesday, October 2 at 7:00pm in the Quarry Farm Barn.
Tag: Mark Twain Project
Mark Twain Forum Reviews: “Pudd’nhead Wilson: Manuscript and Revised Versions, with “Those Extraordinary Twins”
Barbara Schmidt reviews the new edition of one of Twain’s most well-known texts
Hartford House Hosts Conversation with Kerry Driscoll, Mark Twain Scholar; New Conversation Scheduled for Thursday
Next virtual conversation is this Thursday at 5:30pm
Mark Twain Expected Us To Read His Fan Mail
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, and ridiculous gratification of hearing their own funeral sermon from the gallery of the community church. Twain imagined his own postmortem moments, too. Below he interrupted an 1880 letter to Joseph Twitchell to address those he […]