Following the Equator Summary
Mark Twain

CHAPTER IX. Close to Australia—­Porpoises at Night—­Entrance to Sydney Harbor—­The Loss of the Duncan Dunbar—­The Harbor—­The City of Sydney—&sh... Read more

CHAPTER LI. Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.  —­Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Yes, the city of Benares is... Read more

CHAPTER XXX. Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand.  —­Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. We spent part of an ... Read more

CHAPTER XX. It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things:  freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either ... Read more

Biography EssayIn 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 Miss... Read more

At the end of a long and prolific career with the pen, America's favorite humorist grew reflective about his craft, yet kept his tongue firmly planted in his cheek: "I have always been able to gain my... Read more

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to America and the world as Mark Twain, is one of the most loved and read men of American letters. Especially noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) a... Read more

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 distin... Read more

For the readers of the late nineteenth century Samuel Clemens was first and foremost a travel writer, not a novelist. He earned his greatest respect and patronage from his contemporaries not for being... Read more