Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An iconic piece of American literature received some special attention in hopes of preserving it for future generations. Mark ...

He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned — and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from ...

In winter 1819, a natural entrance to a cave was found just south of Hannibal, Mo. Locals came from time to time to see the interesting place. One of those visitors in the early 1840s was a young ...

(CBS News) "The Adventures of Mark Twain" isn't the actual title of the memoir by the author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." But the story of how this book is finally coming to be published ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he ...

Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” published in 1884, is sometimes banned because of its constant use of the horrific term “nigger,” yet it is the least racist book imaginable.

Mark Twain's enduring quote, 'If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything,' underscores the profound value of ...

This playful biography of Mark Twain—narrated by his most famous of characters, Huckleberry Finn—begs to be read aloud with a backwoods twang. "Him bein' an author, you might 'spect he went to one of ...

“James” is Percival Everett’s remarkable reimagining of a Mark Twain classic from 1885. How many times must Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” have delighted, transfixed, angered, and ...