Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...

Huck Finn was the breakthrough, both in technical style and in moral ... Howells in a fine phrase called Mark Twain "sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature." So in a sense he was ...

By Mark Twain. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit ... in a mere newspaper could not properly claim recognition as a literary person; he must rise away above that; he must appear in a magazine.

Mark Twain once wrote ... just one of the defining writers of American literary history. He was also easily the biggest oyster fan of all time. Twain liked his oysters fried, stewed, raw ...

Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." ...

No need to stop to see whether you can come up with the answer, because it's too obvious: Samuel Clemens created the cherished celebrity known as Mark Twain as surely and craftily ... playwright, ...