Sex and Secrets in Mark Twain’s Roughing It.
Mark Twain’s comedic memoir Roughing It (1872) begins with him travelling by stagecoach to Nevada and thereafter continuing on to …
Mark Twain’s comedic memoir Roughing It (1872) begins with him travelling by stagecoach to Nevada and thereafter continuing on to …
Once the USA had had a frontier and it had been sublime. In the eyes of its European invaders, and …
Midway through his memoir and travelogue Life on the Mississippi (1883), Mark Twain describes the model home that had once …
Harriet Wasson Styer’s Facts, by a Woman (1881) is in no immediate need of an introduction. No copy of this …
Despite following his well-turned-out novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Mark Twain’s …
[I have been reading books by D.H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway since my early twenties. To my bewilderment I suddenly …
Tychy has had some writing about Roughing It by Mark Twain queued up for some time now. This image should …
I had worked through American literature at university, in chronological order, and such was the rush to get to Edgar …
What is the significance of Washington Irving’s combined biography and historical epic Mahomet and His Successors (1849-)? Today it is …
As the USA rolled westwards, the tall tale, a species of folk mischief, had emerged as the acutest cultural expression …
[The following contains spoilers.] Has Thomas Hudson, the hero of Ernest Hemingway’s posthumously-published novel Islands in the Stream (1970), been …
[The following contains spoilers.] Ernest Hemingway had started writing the text that would become Islands in the Stream in 1946. …
For many people, the COVID-19 pandemic will make death come alive again. With the escalating fatalities and the decimation of …
[When I began researching “World War Correspondents” in 2013, it was with the intention of writing a series of articles …
I have a couple of big posts queued up about Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961). One is an article about “Great …