For Mark Twain, it was love at first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from the Holy Land and found them

Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the real-life, 37-year friendship bet

"Mark Twain is Mark Twain and reading these classic authors is always worthwhile. If his books were bread after all these years well it would still be fresh and

The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South

Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.