Mark Twain News

In the decade since country singer Brad Paisley put out his debut album, the kid from Glen Dale, W.Va., has concocted a savvy musical amalgam of Roger Miller's songwriting wit, Buck Owens' hard-rocking twang, and Chet Atkins' guitar wizardry.

HUCKLEBERRY Finn coined the expression "stretcher" for someone with, shall we say, a selective approach to the truth.

Pelham High's reading list for ninth-graders includes Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits not yet a classic.

A staged reading of a Mark Twain classic with live music Saturday will raise money and food for Harvesters Community Food Network.

The question burning on my mind today is simply this - why do we Americans continue to retain the word "king" as a superlative? We remember Michael Jackson as "King of Pop." Lebron James is "King James." Elvis is simply "The King." Did we forget why we left England in the first place? Must we read the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of ...

Most of us are familiar with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Compared to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Innocents Abroad is a great disappointment.

In the decade since country singer Brad Paisley put out his debut album, the kid from Glen Dale, W.Va., has concocted a savvy musical amalgam of Roger Miller's songwriting wit, Buck Owens' hard-rocking twang and Chet Atkins' guitar wizardry.

Huckleberry Finn: Main character of the book. He is an illegitimate child who runs away from his adopted family to be free of society and civilization.

The Foundry Art Centre is one of 269 libraries, municipalities, and arts, culture, higher education, and science organizations to receive grants totaling $3.7 million to host Big Read events from September 2009 to June 2010.

Phoenix resident Sam Haldiman is taking the elements of a book club to the stage.

Claire Boucher and William Gratz had their sights set on the southern reaches of the Mississippi River when they packed their chickens, a sewing machine and 20 pounds of potatoes into a houseboat they crafted from scratch.

Most of us are familiar with the account of Adam and Eve in the Bible. Most of us are familiar with the writings of Mark Twain, especially his classic, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The further adventures of Mark Twain Book of Twainiana may not contain masterpieces, but it forms a reliable impression of Mark Twain as a writer and as a man Reviewed by Martin Levin Thursday, Jun.

So much is happening with Hartford museums, it was time to investigate. My plan was to visit as many of the city's museums as I could in a day, by bike.

The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities presents 'Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' running July 14 - August 9, 2009 in the Main Stage Theater.

I was at the public library the other day and eavesdropped on a conversation at the front desk between a woman librarian and a junior high school-aged boy.

Tales of life on the river, jumping frogs and a small-town circus are under way in Victorville at the 33rd annual Huck Finn Jubilee this Father's Day weekend.

In 1895, Mark Twain performed in Australia as part of his worldwide tour. From June 22 through 24, he returns to the United States in the form of Chris Wallace, who will present his one-man show, 'The Mark Twain You Don't Know,' at the Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal Canyon Rd.

NORWALK A literary giant, in the form of his alter ego, will revisit the Norwalk Public Library, 1 Belden Ave,, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 20.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Middlemarch by George Eliot ...