From the inscription in this copy of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," the book appears to have been a Christmas gift from Twain to his daughter Clara Clemens in 1886. The inscription is signed "From Papa." ...

Mark Twain is famous for writing countless books that changed the face of American ... in that it drew from a centuries-old Dutch murder case. Rutigliano describes the novel as tracing the lives ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

Mark Twain chronicled his experiences living and working out West in his book Roughing It ... Both means of travel were much faster than the old overland stagecoach route. Traveling in his ...

If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain ... book, in 1869. It told the story of a trip he'd taken to Europe and the Middle East. Twain had heard ...