(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner ... speech with a promise that “The golden age of America begins right now,” but it was hard not ...

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.

Mark Twain once said when he was 15 years old, he thought his father was the dumbest man he had ever met. Twain said by the time he had reached ...

It's his second time performing Life on the Mississippi at Mason City Community Theatre. "If someone saw that show 30 years ...

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 ...