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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Mark Twain wrote that "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.
" A new edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" will try to find out if that holds true by replacing the N-word with "slave" in an effort not to offend readers.Twain scholar Alan Gribben, who is working with NewSouth Books in Alabama to publish a combined volume of the books, said the N-word appears 219 times in "Huck Finn" and four times in "Tom Sawyer." He said the word puts the books in danger of joining the list of literary classics that Twain once humorously defined as those "which people praise and don't read.""It's such a shame that one word should be a barrier between a marvelous reading experience and a lot of readers," Gribben said.Yet Twain was particular about his words. His letter in 1888 about the right word and the almost right one was "the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."The book isn't scheduled to be published unti...What can you expect from one of America's longest-running restaurants? A timeless design and a menu concept that's build to last, a roster of famous clientele (often...
A Massachusetts library has put the Mark Twain work "Eve's Diary" back on the shelf more than a century after it was banned.The Charlton Public Library's trustees th...
It's two hours before sunrise in Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park (808/985-6000, nps.gov/havo, entrance fee $10 per vehicle). The winds are gusting, and stars fill a...
When Mark Twain 's hero Huckleberry Finn was forced to study spelling for an hour every day, he said, "I couldn't stand it much longer. It was deadly dull, and I was...
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Comedian Will Ferrell will receive the 14th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center announced Thursday.Ferrell, who started his career on " Sa...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Senate wants to take away Mark McGwire's highway.A stretch of Interstate 70 in St. Louis was designated the Mark McGwire High...
To steal a line from Mark Twain, it seems as though rumors of the death of the Tea Party have been greatly exaggerated.Tea Party-backed challenger Richard Mourdock d...
With songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek," The Band fused rock, blues, folk and gospel to create a sound that see...
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Maple Leaf has beef with homophobic slur
To some it's just a bunch of bird drawings. To others, John James Audubon's 'Birds of America' is a rare blend of art, natural history and craftsmanship, unique enou...
New editions of Twain classics scrubbed of offensive language
Mark Twain's " Huckleberry Finn "... "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"... they're American classics, right? The answer is still yes but they are also getting a modern r...
Mark Twain's dying wish has finally been granted: His lengthy autobiography is set to be published on the 100th anniversary of his death.The first volume of Twain's ...
The Cannes film festival on Saturday wrapped up the movies in competition wading deep in the Mississippi river with "Mud," a heart-wrenching, Mark Twain-influenced t...
It's almost beach time! But the beach isn't the only way to cool off. After decades of decline and neglect, cities across America are embracing their riverbanks—and ...
There was Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, red carpet glamour and a crop of new Academy Award contenders — but this was also the year the global financial crisis explode...
To have one film competing at the Cannes Film Festival is a privilege. To have two, Matthew McConaughey says, is wonderful good fortune — and the reward for a spell ...
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