Marianna Mayer, Adapted by, Mark Twain, Author, Marianna Mayer, Author Dial Books $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2099-2 Made less satirical than Mark Twain's classic and simplified for younger ...

One of many books on wildlife that Twain owned that are thought to have been of particular interest to his daughter Jean. The inscription, which Dr. Gribben does not believe is in Twain's ...

Mark Twain's books are considered less for their own sake than for the light they throw on their author -which, in a way, is too bad, since Mr. Kaplan's literary comments are always perceptive and ...

The books were considerably more expensive than the editions that appeared much later ... He had moderate success selling a self-pasting scrapbook dubbed, naturally, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book," and ...

A person who has an absurd love of Kentucky might well say that author and humorist Mark Twain — birth name Samuel Clemens — ...

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 ...

American author Mark Twain's most notable claim to fame is penning "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The only thing that may have rivaled the prose he poured ...

Celebrated American author Mark Twain was very dismissive of people who think it is possible for someone to learn how to write a novel. "A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a ...