Tom Sawyer

Paramount Moving Forward With 'Huck and Tom'

Posted 05.21.2012

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Mark Twain may have published "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" eight years before "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but don't tell that to Paramount...

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Tom Sawyer Takes Over Google

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 11.30.2011

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Tom Sawyer has taken over the Google home page. In honor of Mark Twain's 176th birthday, Google.com proudly displayed a panoramic scene featuring ...

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PHOTOS: Lost "Huck Finn" Illustrations Discovered

The Atlantic Wire | Posted 07.13.2011

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The British children's author and illustrator Edward Ardizzone is best known for writing and illustrating the Tim series and for his collaboration wit...

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Astoria Characters: The Lace-Curtain Ladies

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nancy Ruhling

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Great Snow Show. My rapt "audience" -- the little old ladies who live on my block -- is peeking at me from behind lace curtains.

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Mark Twain's Language: "Bad" Words Then and Now

Hugh Rawson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hugh Rawson

The text of Huckleberry Finn includes more than two hundred instances of the controversial word. But this doesn't say very much about the author himself.

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Sanitizing Twain -- to the Nth Degree

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laurence Hughes

Huckleberry Finn is a product of its time. Hate it, debate it, deplore it, ignore it, but don't take it upon yourself to change it to suit your own mores and values.

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The Problem With Protection

Monica Edinger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Monica Edinger

Whenever I read about another effort to protect the young from historical nastiness (the latest being the new edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures o...

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No Publisher Should "Edit" Mark Twain's Novels

Richard Greener | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Greener

Mark Twain's novels are about to be bloodied. As a novelist, I understand, object and feel compelled to protest.

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In Defense of Dead/Absent Parents in Children's Literature

Nathan Bransford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathan Bransford

There has been some discussion in the book world lately about the prevalence of absent and/or dead parents in children's literature. In an interesting...

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Mark Twain In New York City

The New York Times | MICHAEL POLLAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Twain was a lifelong traveler, and his footsteps are all over New York City. Many of them are detailed in "Mark Twain: A Life" by Ron Powers (Fre...

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Mark Twain's Autobiography: Previously Unpublished Documents Reveal Shocking View Of Christianity, Criticism Of Roosevelt (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Twain's autobiography will be published this November, 100 years after his death, per Twain's own dying wishes. A fear of being shunned for the s...

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Mark Twain Centennial: Rudyard Kipling's Interview With Mark Twain

Posted 05.25.2011

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This article originally appeared as a Library of America Story of the Week feature. An Interview with Mark Twain Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) From "T...

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Mark Twain Quiz: How Well Do You Know The Legend?

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's exactly a century since Mark Twain died, but his voice remains as fresh and witty as ever. How well do you know the man who gave the world Huck F...

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Mark Twain's Final Years

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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REDDING, Conn. — Mark Twain died here on April 21, a century ago. He was 74, and in failing health, his heart – his tobacco heart, he call...

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Mark Twain House Survives By Following Twain's Example, Despite Financial Trouble

The Wall Street Journal | JULIA M. KLEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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From 1874 until 1891, Mark Twain lived in an ornate Gothic Revival mansion in Hartford, Conn., where he wrote his most enduring masterpieces, includin...

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