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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 readers, ...

Harry L. Katz's book, Mark Twain's America, gives a fascinating inside glimpse into the writer using rare illustrations, vintage photographs, maps, and more. Katz picked 10 of Twain's best books. Mark ...

Mark Twain was on the lecture circuit for over three decades. He would take the stage feigning bemusement at discovering his audience and stand silently smoking one of the 30 cigars he would enjoy ...

"Mark Twain" (Penguin Press), the latest book from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant, examines the life of one of America ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mark Twain is best known for novels such as "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and his witty commentary on late 19th Century and early 20th Century life. But a new book about ...

THE MARK TWAIN ANTHOLOGY:Great Writers on His Life and Works, edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. The Library of America, 518 pp., $35. On April 21, 1910, reports of Mark Twain's death were not ...

The mighty Mississippi stretches for 2,300 miles, its rocky riverbanks touching 10 states. But in a deeper sense, the river flows through every corner of the American imagination, thanks to Mark Twain ...