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We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article."Mark Twain" (Penguin Press), the latest book ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...
It's been 100 years since Mark Twain died, after declaring, "If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there." ...
The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...
Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...
A CBS production crew was in Hannibal during the Memorial Day Weekend, filming footage and conducting interviews during the ...
Mark Twain — the subject of a new, 1,033-page biography by Ron Chernow — has been called “the Lincoln of our literature,” but his January 1869 lecture in Danville left ...
An excerpt from Mark Twain's "Roughing It" recalling an otherworldly sight on the afternoon of July 4, 1863 in Virginia City.
The lights dimmed, laughter echoed and history came alive last weekend as SEND Community Theater staged Twain’s Tales at the ...
Author Samuel Longhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up along the Mississippi River and used ...
Central Park in Hannibal was filled to the bursting as Malaina McIntyre and Thatcher Johnson were named the official Tom and ...
Around 650 members of a counter-culture group have arrived so far in southern Missouri’s Oregon County to camp out in Mark ...