The point here was simple: Avoid the trap of being pointless, endless, and hopeless by getting to the point, staying on point ...

Much as Twain was an admirer of Browning, he could not resist, here on page 86, adding the word "even" to a poem by Browning called "Paracelsus." From the inscription in this copy of "Little Lord ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain, was born Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, and spent his childhood in nearby Hannibal. Twain is best known for the novels set in his ...

He had moderate success selling a self-pasting scrapbook dubbed, naturally, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book," and patented a peculiar replacement for suspenders ... where he learned more than a lead slug's ...

Although born two generations apart, Mark Twain and Will Rogers each developed a style that was quintessentially American. Their approach was direct, their words plain, and their humor caught the ...

Follow a timeline of key events in Mark Twain's life.