The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today Summary
Mark Twain

CHAPTER X. Only two or three days had elapsed since the funeral, when something happened which was to change the drift of Laura’s life somewhat, and influence in a greater or lesser degree the f... Read more

CHAPTER XXXVII. That Chairman was nowhere in sight.  Such disappointments seldom occur in novels, but are always happening in real life. She was obliged to make a new plan.  She sent him a... Read more

by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 1873 PREFACE. This book was not written for private circulation among friends; it was not written to cheer and instruct a diseased relative of the author’... Read more

CHAPTER LV. Henry Brierly took the stand.  Requested by the District Attorney to tell the jury all he knew about the killing, he narrated the circumstances substantially as the reader already kn... 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