E.E. Burke writes romance novels, many of them set in the old West (and especially the Old Midwest, namely her home state of Kansas) of the late 1800s. Her knowledge of that era, plus her lifelong ...

Tom Sawyer is a mischievous young boy, growing up in a small US town in the mid-1800s. He finds a friend in Huckleberry Finn, a vagrant and outcast, and the two get up to all sorts of boyish ...

'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' author lost children, faced financial ruin. Nov. 22, 2010— -- A century after his death, Mark Twain's wry, curmudgeonly voice is back with the publication of a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Mark Twain wrote that the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. A new edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Mark Twain wrote that “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.” A new edition of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” ...

The sculpture depicts Mark Twain's two fictional characters, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, walking in stride side by side. Tom Sawyer is shown holding a staff and knapsack over his proper right shoulder.

The adventure unfolds as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn - Tom's friend from the streets - witness a murder in the graveyard. Tom and Huck flee to Jackson Island and make a pact never to tell anyone about ...

Aunt Polly isn't very young anymore when she takes her two nephews Tom and Sid Sawyer under her wing after their parents died. Tom doesn't like to go to school and is always full of mischief, his ...