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Mark Twain is back! Volume II of his autobiography just out
Insights into the just-published second volume of The Autobiography of Mark Twain.
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In 'Huckleberry Finn,' A History In Echoes
Andrew Levy's searching book adds to, and comments on, the considerable scholarship surrounding an widely read and widely challenged American classic.
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Mark Twain & Helen Keller’s Special Friendship: He Treated Me Not as a Freak, But as a Person Dealing with Great Difficulties
Sometimes it can seem as though the more we think we know a historical figure, the less we actually do. Helen Keller? We’ve all seen (or think we’ve seen) some version of The Miracle Worker, right?—even if we haven’t actually read Keller’s autobiography. And Mark Twain? He can seem like an old family friend...
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№ 7, Mark Twain’s Mother
In today’s encore excerpt -- from Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1 by Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens attempted to write his autobiography over several decades but never finished, and instructed that the draft not be made available for 100 years...
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The Library Mark Twain Built
The author helped create a library in the last town he called home—and it's full of great summer reading suggestions.
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The Great Failure of Andrew Carnegie’s Simplified Spelling Lobby
In their own quiet way, spelling and grammar are each forms of lobbying. We treat language as an immutable fact, but it started out as a variety of opinions on what things should be called. And those opinions, like a diamond pressed into form, slowly molded into a definitive shape. But even though language started from dissent, there’s a limit to how much dissent we can tolerate... By Ernie Smith.
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How Mark Twain’s Ghost Almost Set off the Copyright Battle of the Century
A medium called Mark Twain’s spirit during a seance, during which he allegedly dictated a new novel. It led to one of the kookiest legal cases ever. By Parker Higgins.
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THE WAR PRAYER - Mark Twain
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Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla's lab in the spring of 1894.
Twain is holding Tesla's experimental vacuum lamp, which is powered by a loop of wire which is receiving electromagnetic energy from a Tesla coil (not visible). Tesla's face is visible in the background.
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All Right Then, I’ll Go to Hell
FOR AMERICANS, Mark Twain is something akin to gravity, a massive and foundational force whose magnificence has worn off through familiarity.
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Mark Twain’s Religion and Political Views
Twain was raised a Presbyterian. He was probably what would be considered a deist in reality, though many contend he was an atheist.
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The Adventures of Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger (1985)
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IMAX: Mark Twain's America
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Step aside Seinfeld — meet Mark Twain, the stand-up comic
Mark Twain once said that “hunger is the handmaid of genius,” and he was speaking from personal experience. By 1894, Twain was an esteemed writer, an international celebrity -- and dead broke thanks to a few bad investments. To stave off debt, he embarked on the world’s first stand-up comedy tour, chronicled in Richard Zacks’ new book, “Chasing the Last Laugh.” Zacks joins Jeffrey Brown for more.
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Surprising historical photographs of famous people hanging out together
Historical photos of famous people hanging out together. Who knew Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin were friends?
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Shania Twain - Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)
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How the Most Hated Animal in America Outwitted Us All
Coyotes, the victims of attempted extermination, have found a way to thrive. By Simon Worrall.
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Mark Twain Has a Historic Haunted Mansion That Offers Spooky Ghost Tours
Iconic American author Mark Twain, best known for his stories about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, has more than just books as a claim to fame. A lesser-known aspect of Twain is that his former residence is haunted. By Sara Barnes.
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The War Prayer.
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