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Mark Twain

Dreamland

by Mark Twain,

I once awoke from a dream while crossing Bond Street in New York with a friend, and it was snowing hard. We had been talking, and there had been no…

Humor

by Mark Twain,

Repetition is a mighty power in the domain of humor. I undertook to prove the truth of this forty years ago in San Francisco on the occasion of my second…

Incoherence Abroad

by Carl Jensen,

From a letter to Mark Twain, postmarked October 1, 1879, from Carl Jensen, a customs officer in Stubbekøbing, Denmark. Twain’s annotation reads, “Preserve this remarkable letter.” Dear Mark Twain: Letters…

Democracy 101

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Mark Twain's farewell address

Untitled

Art by Jeffrey Smith,

Sitting in darkness

by Mark Twain,

Mark’s twang

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Jacques Lowe,

Copyright piracy, circa 1872

by Mark Twain,

Say It Ain’t So, Huck

by Jane Smiley,

Second thoughts on Mark Twain’s “masterpiece”

Untitled

Art by James Montgomery Flagg,

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