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79The Amazing Truth About Fiction
The truth of fiction is visible, tangible, and powerful. Fiction exposes and dramatizes truth. Fiction is truth told through many different genres.
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81Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain, Summary
Tom Sawyer Abroad - In the pursuit of new adventures to make a name for himself, Tom Sawyer gets himself, Huckleberry Finn, and Jim kidnapped by a maddened inventor determined to fly a new kind of experimental airship around the world.
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76Book review of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer
This particular edition of the story reprinted from a first edition text published in 1876 by the American Publishing Company. All spellings and punctuation were preserved as they appeared in the original editions. This aspect of the original brings...
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67Huck Finn Criticism
As a 21st century African American reader, upon completing Huckleberry Finn, I was thoroughly dissatisfied with the lack of information regarding Jim and the ludicrous conclusion which failed to heighten the emotional response to the novel. However,...
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73Visit Hannibal Missouri—Mark Twain's Childhood Home
Hannibal? The fellow who led a cavalry of jangling war elephants over the Alps? Or Hannibal, the Lector fellow who disgraced the name of the previous man by the same name? No, I discovered a Hannibal nearer to America's hometown. This March, a...
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673 Classic Books Banned as America Tries to Re-Write African-American History
African-American history is, at it's core, simple. Africans were abducted and brought to America, where they became slaves. The Civil War freed them, and the 1960's battle for their Civil Rights made sure they could no longer be treated as...
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64On Mark Twain
“Mark twain”: in the nautical language of Samuel Clemens’s riverboat-piloting days, it was a term that meant the water was just deep enough for safe passage, at least two fathoms of it beneath the boat, synecdoche for “by the mark twain.”...
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77Ship Ahoy - Great Books about Ships at Sea
Reflecting a long fascination with life at sea, writers have always turned to the setting of ships for thrilling stories. This article highlights some of the best sea stories around.
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62The Wonderful World of Books
This is a lyrical poem about how delightful it is to be absorbed by the adventure of a good book. Children need to be read to and adults need to be good role models.
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73Controversy In Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A perspective of the controversy involved in the classic novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
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