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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Adventures of Huck Finn Walt Disney’s The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 adaptation of the American classic novel ...

Author Percival Everett, whose 2001 book “Erasure” was adapted as the film “American Fiction” last year, has a new book out. “James: A Novel” is a reimagining of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of ...

Twain's novel pioneered the use of colloquial dialect, which has long caused controversy for its 219 uses of the N-word. Getty Images A British university has issued a “trigger warning” on Mark ...

Clausen is a professor of American literature at the University of San Diego and the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Escondido. I recently finished teaching Mark Twain’s ...

Based on the classic book by Mark Twain, comes the story of the renowned young rascal: Huckleberry Finn. When Huck sets out on an adventure down the Mississippi River, he comes across a runaway slave ...

Very few characters in American history have captured the American zeitgeist like Tom Sawyer. First published in 1876, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer quickly became a household novel that ...

Does a 1985 musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s then-100-year-old odyssey through the antebellum South still have something to offer? A lively, deeply moving revival of “Big River: The Adventures of ...

Forty-three years ago this month, libraries around the country observed the first Banned Books Week. Its co-founder, Judith Krug, was the director of the American Library Association’s Office for ...

Clausen is a professor of American literature at the University of San Diego and the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Escondido. I recently finished teaching Mark Twain’s ...