Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne ...

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 ...