Not Wise Yet: Mark Twain’s Short Story ‘How the Author Was Sold in Newark’

In his short story “How the Author was Sold in Newark,” Mark Twain contemplates one of his lectures that didn’t go as planned. During this particularly humiliating lecture, he learned that wisdom is a virtue that should always be sought. However, it often can’t be obtained without attentiveness to surroundings and knowledge of the whole […]