In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the most famous author in the world, with classics like “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) cementing his ...

a town he would immortalize in “Huckleberry Finn” and its prequel, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” The restless young man drifted from one job to another, then found his first calling as a ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache ...

Sawyer’s saloon was destroyed that same year—by fire. Twain was more definite about the real-life model for Huckleberry Finn than Tom Sawyer. And he admitted that he had based Tom Sawyer ...

that informed both “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and his masterpiece, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” It includes the feverish years when Twain was soaking up America’s vicissitudes ...

families would be divided between Union and Confederate in a town Sam Clemens idealized in his classic novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” ...

Classic literary friendships—from Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas to Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn—offer timeless lessons on loyalty, support, and the complexities of being a true friend. As I have ...

Set shortly after the ending of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Rascals and Robbers begins with St. Petersburg ... jewel-encrusted angel statues to mark the occasion. Tom hunts down Huck, whom he finds ...

The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910 ...