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4 days ago · He wrote a collection of travel letters which were later compiled as The Innocents Abroad (1869). It was on this trip that he met fellow passenger Charles Langdon, who showed him a picture of his sister Olivia. Twain later claimed to have fallen in love at first sight.
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- American Realism
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1 day ago · In "A Tramp Abroad," the quasi-sequel to his 1869 "The Innocents Abroad," fried oysters, stewed oysters, oyster soup, and "oysters roasted in shell-Northern style" made the list of 60 items.
1 day ago · Twain’s affinity to the Jews did not stop there. A few years later, he wrote a comedic travelogue titled “Innocents Abroad” which encapsulated his experiences while on a five-month-long voyage to Palestine. It included anecdotes, observations and criticisms of the many sites he visited.
1 day ago · Charles Chesnutt. The spring 2024 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) continues at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 15 at Quarry Farm and will continue each Wednesday through May. The lectures are free and open to the public and recordings of the lectures will be posted to the CMTS website.
4 days ago · I had wanted to continue my romantic pursuit that fall of my junior year, but I was already scheduled to ship out on a foreign study program to Salamanca, Spain. Of all my terms in college, it is curious how well I remember that trimester in the earliest of university towns. Maybe it was because I was constantly doing battle with the Spanish feminist professor
4 days ago · After visiting Italy and staying on Lake Como in 1867, during a trip that he called “The first organized pleasure party ever assembled for a transatlantic voyage”, the famous writer, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, wrote “The Innocents Abroad”.
21 hours ago · In the first weeks after October 7th, the President understandably responded to the horror and magnitude of the Hamas attack in the context of his and America’s many decades of commitment to Israel as a secure refuge for the Jewish people. He obviously felt on firm moral ground as he used his unique position of power to pledge unconditional ...
