Mark Twain taught us many lessons through his child protagonists, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. His tone, language, and ...

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Mark Twain Tonight!' is a captivating one-man play developed by the talented Hal Holbrook. This show allows the audience to ...

America sees itself in a young boy who learns—but not too much—and whose story ends with his eyes on an open horizon, a stretch of land claimed by the nation but not yet bound to it. That’s where, in ...

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Today, we celebrate the 190th birthday of the “father of American literature,” Mark Twain, a storyteller whose wit, wisdom, and honesty spoke to the heart of our Nation. Through humor and imagination, ...

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) sits in his writing chair and appears to be concentrating intently. Twain’s Letters from the Earth was published after his death and was not approved by his estate until ...

In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the most famous author in the world, with classics like “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) cementing his ...

In his last, most pathetic years, Mark Twain threw himself behind the crackpot theory that the true author of Shakespeare’s plays may have been Francis Bacon. The penultimate book that Twain published ...

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