He appears to have written, "Clements," with an extra "t." Judging from the inscription, this book about steamboat navigation on the Missouri River appears to have been presented to Twain by ...

Marianna Mayer, Adapted by, Mark Twain, Author, Marianna Mayer, Author Dial Books $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2099-2 Made less satirical than Mark Twain's classic and simplified for younger ...

Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures ... He spoke for many of the book's critics when he wrote, in a 1982 Washington Post editorial, "The reading aloud of Huck Finn in our classrooms ...

His book will undoubtedly be the portrait of ... "When we remember that we are all mad," Mark Twain wrote in his notebooks, "the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained." ...

James is not the Jim from Mark Twain’s late ... he needed his books to be commercial successes, which means he wouldn’t have been foolish enough to write a character white readers would ...

Mark Twain wrote the thing in a letter to his minister ... Fed up with literary lies, he wanted Huck Finn to speak not like boys in other books, but exactly the way a boy brought up in the ...

Samuel Clemens, who was known as Mark Twain ... Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which Ernest Hemmingway characterized as "the best book we've ...

Tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been under fire 'since the advent of his career.' To save content items to your account, please ...