(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner ... Trump launched his inaugural speech with a promise that “The golden age of America begins right now,” but it was ...

Howells in a fine phrase called Mark Twain "sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature." So in a sense he was; for, like Lincoln, he came from the heart of America, spent his youth on the ...

Explore Mark Twain's greatest books, from timeless adventures to sharp wit and humor. Discover the classics that shaped American literature.

Mark Twain chronicled his experiences living and ... when perhaps not more than ten men in America, all told, expected to live to see a railroad follow that route to the Pacific.

It Happened in Hartford” honors the happy home life the Twains experienced in Hartford with a museum exhibit and walking tour ...

A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that is two fathoms ... which will still bring to American ears, as long as America shall last, the roll of his vanished drums and ...

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 ...

In the fall of 2023, C-SPAN partnered with the Library of Congress to produce the series, Books That Shaped America ... of Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Willa Cather's ...

Conan is the 26th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ... "Dog Man," is the No. 1 movie in North America for a second weekend, earning an additional $13.7 million in receipts ...