Donahue’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
Donahue offers a new interpretation of Twain’s NO.44, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.
Tag: Mysterious Stranger
Fall ‘Trouble Begins’ Lecture Series Continues October 16
Lecture takes place Wednesday, October 16 at 7:00pm in the Quarry Farm Barn.
Eutsey’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
Eutsey discusses religious liberalism’s strong, but often times neglected, influence on Twain and his writings
Dreaming India The Marvelous & Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger
Mark Twain’s world lecture tour in the mid-1890s, which he recounts in Following the Equator, was generally unpleasant for him. Not only did the humiliating stigma of bankruptcy that prompted the voyage haunt him, but while circumventing the globe with his wife Olivia and daughter Clara, Twain frequently suffered illness and depression. In South Africa, for example, Livy noted that her husband “has not as much courage as I wish […]