by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | 150 Years of Innocents Abroad
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...
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 | Mar 11, 2025 | 150 Years of Innocents Abroad
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...