A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne ...

The published volumes cover the years from 1853, when Sam Clemens was 17 and exploring New York City and Philadelphia, to 1875, by which time Mark Twain, age 40, was at work on The Adventures of ...

Mark Twain quotes are revered for their wisdom, just like MLK quotes. Born Samuel Clemens, Twain was a very successful writer ...

Illustration by E. W. Kemble, from first edition of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' 1884. [Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of ...

However, to this day, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is still a controversial book and one of the most banned in the United States. Why Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry ...

Musical based on the novel by Mark Twain written by Grammy Award winner ... chronicles the life and adventures of Tom Sawyer set in Hannibal, Missouri during the 1840's.

“I have no liking for novels or stories,” Mark Twain once wrote ... Echoes of Our Mutual Friend can be found in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Gribben says Twain “read and annotated ...

A casting crisis threatened a theater’s production of a Mark Twain classic after a diversity workaround proved problematic. Despite the inherent pretend nature of theater and similar […] ...

Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways ... American Experience spoke with her about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Jocelyn A. Chadwick Why has Huck Finn ...

The fog scene, in which Jim upbraids Huck for playing a cruel trick on him and elicits an apology, Fishkin points out, is a rare moment in 19th century American fiction in which an enslaved Black man ...

While Missouri is known as the “Show Me State,” it’s also been deemed the “Cave State” as there are around 7,500 caves, ...