The Life and Work of Mark Twain

S1 E8: The Lecture Tours

Original Air Date: Jul 16, 2002

Despite the rigors of touring and the limitations imposed by his audiences' tastes, Twain comes to love the thrill of live lecturing; he skillfully blends the serious academic content that audiences demand with his own trademark sardonic wit.

Oct 6

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3:30PM

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30 Min

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Available with Freestream

S1 E7: Roughing It-Going West

Original Air Date: Jul 16, 2002

Twain mines his own past as a prospector and turns it into comic frontier fiction in "Roughing It"; the work also marks Twain's first prominent use of American vernacular language; his intimation that it deserves a place in American literature.