Mark Twain

The novel had six editions before November 1908; its instant success brought sometimes unwanted celebrity to the author. She was pleased, however, to receive an admiring letter from Mark Twain . Many of the reviews...

Morris's mother, who liked to have several books in different languages on the go at the same time, taught eclectic reading to her child. Both Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland and Mark TwainHuckleberry Finn made a great impression...

Playing in the Dark shows a striking continuity with the thinking that underlies her novels. She sets out here to revise the teaching of US literature. She investigates the way that race functions as a...

Odle illustrated editions of Voltaire 's Candide, Swift 's Gulliver's Travels, Wilde 's The Sphinx, and Twain 's 1601, among others; his images also appeared in such periodicals as The Gypsy...

Other commentators, such as Mark Twain and Aldous Huxley , however, valued the uniqueness of her style. Twain found her enchanting. Huxley cited her as highly prized by her readers, and wrote of...

On this tour she met both with President Theodore Roosevelt and with Mark Twain .

ES compiled and edited The Mark Twain Birthday Book, which provided quotations for every day of the year; she also designed the book herself.

HBS bought a house on Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut, where she spent the rest of her life; Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) soon built a house next door.

It was before he became famous as Mark Twain that Clemens became Stowe's neighbour on Forest Street, Hartford.

Though HBS was internationally recognized for her written works she was not, unlike many other contemporary literary figures, a frequent lecturer. While Dickens , Samuel Clemens (who published as Mark Twain), Julia Ward Howe ...

Other books in the series included Stephen Leacock on Mark Twain and Sacheverell Sitwell on Mozart .