Participants’ in society, he maintains – they keep themselves apart and do not contribute to the political life of the people ...

Gribben, shortly after Twain bought this book in January 1877, Twain expressed the hope in writing that the country’s new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, would put this author, Richard Irving ...

"Mark Twain's Scrap Book," and patented a peculiar replacement for suspenders. The first licensed Parker Brothers (of Monopoly fame) game was based on Twain's Innocents Abroad book of travel essays.

After the discussion, have students compose a culminating writing, using one of the quotes below as a starting point: He (Mark Twain) was curiously and intimately American. No other author had ...

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 ...

Van Wyck Brooks once suggested that he regarded his comic writing "as something external to himself, as something other than artistic self-expression." No doubt Mark Twain resented being taken as ...

The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is a big honor, but that doesn't mean every would-be recipient accepted. Robin ...

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 ...

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 ...