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 ...

From the inscription in this copy of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," the book appears to have been a Christmas gift from Twain to his daughter Clara Clemens in 1886. The inscription is signed "From Papa." ...

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." ...

This book has not the fresh frolicsomeness of the ... The method is that discursive method which Mark Twain has led us to expect of him. The story of a man who had a claim against the United ...

Mark Twain is famous for writing countless books that changed the face of American literature — whether fiction or nonfiction. (See also: the number of acclaimed writers who have revisited his ...

Mark Twain's books are considered less for their own sake than for the light they throw on their author -which, in a way, is too bad, since Mr. Kaplan's literary comments are always perceptive and ...

A person who has an absurd love of Kentucky might well say that author and humorist Mark Twain — birth name Samuel Clemens — ...

Mark Twain chronicled his experiences living and working out West in his book Roughing It, published in 1872. In this excerpt from the book's fourth chapter, Twain describes his 1861 journey by ...

The great American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...

Move over, Mark Twain: Percival Everett's novel "James" is ... "I Heard Her Call My Name" is a brave and timely book that describes Lucy Sante's life and her struggle to be true to herself.