Explore Mark Twain's greatest books, from timeless adventures to sharp wit and humor. Discover the classics that shaped American literature.

So, Tom got out a sheet of paper that he had wrote the oath on, and read it. It swore every boy to stick to the band, and ...

The daily routines of history’s greatest writers reveal a lot about the importance of habit and discipline. Previously, we’ve ...

Writing in public, which is really what Mr. Twain did for many years and what I and a whole bunch of other folks have been ...

Twain expressed the hope in writing that the country’s new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, would put this author, Richard Irving Dodge, at the helm of the Indian Department. "There’s a man who ...

He had moderate success selling a self-pasting scrapbook dubbed, naturally, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book," and patented ... All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. Twain tried ...

Mark Twain once wrote, "An oyster has hardly any ... his regular evening ambition was "to move upon the supper works and destroy oysters done up in all kinds of seductive styles," via Smithsonian ...

In the late 1800s, celebrated author Mark Twain called Hartford, CT his home. The Mark Twain House and Museum now commemorates this period with a new exhibition and walking tour.

The comedian and former late-night talk show host will be given the Kennedy Center’s annual comedy honor at a ceremony in ...