The New Yorker · 4dThe Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
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The Columbian · 6dCheck It Out: Mark Twain left lasting legacy
“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences occurred to the main characters.
Deseret News on MSN.com · 10dDeseret News archives: Remembering Mark Twain, who visited Utah in 1861
While the brothers’ time spent in Salt Lake City was brief, Twain’s narrative offers a humorous (albeit exaggerated and irreverent) outsider’s perspective on early Utah. Twain is impressed by the Mormon settlers’ industry, puzzled by their practice of polygamy, bored by their scripture and enthralled with their mountainous landscape.
Lesson One: Mark Twain and Will Rogers — American Originals
Samuel Clemens, who was known as Mark Twain, was born in Missouri in 1835 — the year of Haley's Comet, and vowed he would live to see the comet pass over again. Indeed, Twain died in 1910 ...
Shania Twain Says She 'Lost a Very Important Foundation' Upon Her Parents' Death in 1987 Car Crash
"My whole life history was there, with them, and many of the associations fell along the way, away, after my parents died," said Twain on a new episode of the Making Space with Hoda Kotb podcast ...
Samuel Clemens Biography
If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain ... who had died just days after finishing his manuscript. Twain appreciated Grant's writing, and he ...
Mark Twain House honors Val Kilmer after his death
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous cape as Batman in “Batman Forever” and portrayed Jim ...