Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet, by the 1890s, Twain had lost much of his fortune in poor investments and economic fiascos with his publisher. In 1885, at the ...

There are certain things we never forget all our lives. There are some books, some lines, some poems that remain etched in our memories till we are alive. Remember The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that ...

The Mississippi Valley is "as tranquil and reposeful as dreamland, and has nothing this-worldly about it … nothing to hang a fret or worry upon." It's a beautiful sentiment, and yet it contrasts with ...

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What, if anything, about this benighted moment of American life will anyone in the future look back on with nostalgia? Well, those of us who have cable are experiencing a golden age of sarcasm (from ...

Mark Twain’s many lives. A new biography depicts the different sides of the American author. Some people live several lives. Mark Twain lived half a dozen. As a boy in Hannibal, Missouri, he saw his ...