Mark Twain's books are considered less for their ... smoking-room stories and circulated scatological sketches among his friends, or that, the most American writer of his day, he spent a sixth ...

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 ...

That, my friends, is marketing. And the writer, over the long course of his career, became by virtue of rendered ... Samuel Clemens created the cherished celebrity known as Mark Twain as surely and ...

Samuel Clemens, who was known as Mark ... Indeed, Twain died in 1910, the day after the comet's return. A humorist, philosopher, and writer of social satire, Twain was world famous in his lifetime.

Mark Twain toiled on the manuscript off and on ... As many White Americans began to catch up with Huck’s respect for his Black friend, the book’s use of the n-word — more than 200 times ...