Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

“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 ...

The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after ...

‘My books are simply autobiographies,’ Mark Twain once confessed. True of most American writers ... Deluxe Editions - When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of ...