Arresting to read in an editorial afterword, on page 996 of this 1,029-page book, Mark Twain quoted as saying, in 1875, when he was 40: “I like history, biography, travels, curious facts ...

Mark Twain, like Charles Dickens, seems to exist less as a person and more as an institution in the Republic of Letters. His stature in American literary history is such that this perception is ...

But he felt that with history, a different standard applied. I have quotes from when Mark Twain was a teenager, when he essentially runs away, goes to New York and Philadelphia and Cincinnati ...

The Mark Twain House & Museum on Farmington Avenue is a mile or so from the Mark Twain in Hartford History Trail. It’s a good ...

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings ...

wrote Mark Twain in his semi-fictionalized wartime account, titled “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed.” “Thousands entered the war, got just a taste of it, and then stepped out a ...

The reports of Mark Twain holding forth in the Silver Bow Club next to the Silver Bow County Court House are much exaggerated. It wasn’t even built when he visited Butte in 1895. Twain’s ...

(Courtesy Mark Twain House & Museum) When he was first appointed, Roos told the Hartford Courant that Twain was “such a transcendent figure in American history and literature, not only a great ...

Performance attendees are welcome to stay after that evening's show to learn more about Twain and his wife, Livy, as well as the history of Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve, concluding ...