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Language is the focus in Mark Twain’s hilarious story of trying not to understand a foreign tongue.

Commentary Ontario’s Peel District School Board, those wonders who are systematically removing treasured books from library shelves, might ...

In "The Merchant of Venice," Shakespeare writes: "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." He encourages us ...

Humor is one of the greatest gifts that mankind has been given. It gives us the ability to ...

Commentary “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth ...

Throughout our lives, we desire many different gifts but rarely desire death. We come to fear our end ...

For most of us, the daily mail brings bills, advertisements, a magazine or newspaper, political circulars in the ...

Mark Twain's humorous short story also teaches a valuable lesson about restraint.

The haphazard, changing nature of life can make it difficult to stay true to one's self. But if ...

Volumes have been written about the quintessentially American author who was inspired by his experience as a Mississippi ...

To read a play rather than watch it performed is a bit like eating a beef burrito without ...

The following article represents five days on the road driving through Arizona, California, and Nevada, listening to everyday ...

NEW YORK—The thought of death or, to be more specific, the end of one's life can be quite ...

As the plane taking me home rose and banked to the west, it crossed the Mississippi River. Just ...

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain (1835–1910), the pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens, remains ...

Twentieth-century American author William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature.” But few of his compatriots today ...

There are few books that encompass the soul of summertime, and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is one ...

Commentary HANNIBAL, Mo.—During a visit to Hannibal, Missouri, in 1882, Mark Twain wrote to his wife Olivia of ...

Future historians called it “The Gilded Age.” From the 1870s to around 1900, technology and manufacturing exploded in ...

Leaving Chautauqua County, my husband, Vic, and I continued our Empire State Road Trip in upstate New York, ...

I like to read other people’s mail. Don’t worry, I only read the mail of dead people. Mainly ...

Deceptively simple and totally compelling, "Big River" offers a strong lesson about people caught up in a painful ...

Actor Michael Douglas claimed Monday that friend and former co-star Val Kilmer is battling throat cancer. He told ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have pieced together a collection of letters written by Mark ...