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America's best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then ...

Just north of NYC, glorious estates reveal a more genteel era. Anyone here watch The Gilded Age ?," asks Mimi, our tour guide ...

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

Riboud's inaccessible Manhattan monument "Africa Rising” is now on public display at the Jardin des Tuileries.

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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 ...

In the late 19th century, a letter addressed to “Mark Twain, God Knows Where” was delivered to him. That was celebrity before there existed the supposedly indispensable mechanisms of celebrity ...