Justin Kaplan's remarkable new biography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (Simon and Schuster, $7.95), confronts us with the problem, once again, of defining Mark Twain's ...
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
Freedom is an important concept in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The two protagonists of this novel, Huck and Jim, are both searching for freedom in their escape down the river.
About Mark Twain
Follow a timeline of key events in Mark Twain's life.
Mark Twain's "Which Was the Dream?" and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years
All of these selections in this volume were comosed between 1896 and 1905. Mark Twain wrote them after the disasters of the early and middle nineties that had included the decline into bankruptcy of ...
Mark Twain, Self-Appointed Literary Critic
The inscription, which Dr. Gribben identified as Twain’s hand, suggests Twain gave this English grammar book to his wife, Olivia, when they lived in Hartford in 1888. The book appears to have ...
Ken Burns | Mark Twain
In his time, Mark Twain was considered the funniest man on earth. Yet he was also an unflinching critic of human nature, using his humor to attack hypocrisy, greed and racism. In this series ...
MARK TWAIN'S BAROMETER.
Somebody was asking a Hartford man how it happened that mark Twain wrote and published so little nowadays. "He writes as much as ever," was the reply, "but his barometer is out of order ...
The Importance of Friendship in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
His response was, "One soul inhabiting two bodies." This was the kind of relationship that Huckleberry Finn and Jim shared in Mark Twain's epic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This novel is ...
Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
This beautiful volume, illustrated with 30 new images by master engraver Barry Moser, gathers writings from the full span of Mark Twain's career and elucidates his special attachment to and regard for ...
Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
This beautiful volume, illustrated with 30 new images by master engraver Barry Moser, gathers writings from the full span of Mark Twain’s career and elucidates his special attachment to and regard for ...
Shania Twain Among 2022 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Nominees
Shania Twain is among the 2022 nominees for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (NaSHOF), for which the ceremony takes place in October.
