The complete online text of Complete Letters of Mark Twain by Mark Twain.

An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...

Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...

In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...

Mark Twain. By Larzer Ziff. Lives and Legacies. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. [viii ], 126. $17.95, ISBN 0-19-517019-9.) Larzer Ziff's book on Mark Twain appears in a series entitled Lives and Legacies. Other books in the series...

REBECCA TROUNSON, Special from the Los Angeles Times The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-27-2005 Old letters led to new view of Mark Twain -- Scholar writes of women's influence on author By REBECCA TROUNSON, Special from the Los Angeles Times Date: 12-27-2005,...