We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article."Mark Twain" (Penguin Press), the latest book ...

Robert Hirst, general editor Mark Twain Project, holds the first page of "A Family Sketch", a recent acquisition for UC Berkeley, in the Mark Twain Papers vault at the Bancroft Library at UC ...

As for Twain’s own works, visit any big bookshop and you’ll find entire shelves displaying the best known of them: I recently counted 19 different editions of “Tom Sawyer” at the Beaverton ...

How Well Do You Know the Life and Works of Mark Twain? By J. D. Biersdorfer May 5, 2025. Share full article. Ben Hickey. Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture.

What we get wrong about Mark Twain. Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings.

Mark Twain, known for his curmudgeonly wit and storytelling, is shown as a family man and loving father in "A Family Sketch," a never published tribute to a daughter who inspired two of his ...

“Mark Twain’s River of Song” isn’t a particularly bad title for a Mark Twain musical. ... the show works best when considered simply as a folk music celebration with occasional narration.

A third is the Mark Twain Library (paperback editions of the works without the scholarly notes, for classroom use and general readership). Yet a fourth, begun in 2001, is an online archive of ...

Ron Chernow’s exceptional biography devours the life’s work of Mark Twain, the perfect American writer who lived an imperfect American life.

After the work was published Clara Clemens, Mark Twain’s daughter, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against Hutchings and her publisher Mitchell Kennerley on June 8, 1918.