In winter 1819, a natural entrance to a cave was found just south of Hannibal ... tour guide at the Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, Mo. “In his own words in his autobiography, he said he tired ...

he even invested in a watch company that launched a signature 'Mark Twain' pocket watch Stephen J. Mexal The aspiring author knew Olivia Langdon was the one when he first laid eyes on a photograph ...

Here’s Tina Fey Telling Some Jokes and Accepting a Humor Prize Tina Fey accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last week, but the ceremony just aired on PBS last night. Here’s a ...

Percival Everett reveals a lot about his reworking of Mark Twain’s Adventures of ... We’re in the 19th-century American South, where James, owned by Huck’s aunt, Miss Watson, hears that ...

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 ...

It began rolling off American printing presses in February ... Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping an abusive father, and the other escaping ...

Audiences can enjoy the wit and wisdom of one of America's most beloved authors as Mason City Community Theatre presents "Life on the Mississippi: An Evening with Mark Twain" beginning Friday.

Eventually End The great American humorists have something in common: hatred. H. L. Mencken and Mark Twain both could be uproariously funny and charming — and Twain could be tender from time to ...

The Mark Twain Annual, Vol. 17, No. 1, Special issue: Mark Twain and Nature (2019), pp. 159-172 (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.17.1.0159 • https://www ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttttc5.2 Most Americans regard Mark Twain with special affection. They know him as a shaggy man who told stories of boy ...