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Tag: Mark Twain

Nick Offerman Tangles with Twain and Narrates the Original Time Travel Story

September 20, 2017Jamie Greene

Released this week is a brand-new recording of Twain’s classic time travel story ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,’ narrated by Ron Swanson himself – Nick Offerman. And it’s just as great as you think it is.

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Mark Twain Is Back With a Previously Unpublished Children’s Story

January 22, 2017Jamie Greene

This September, we’ll be treated to a previously unreleased, unfinished children’s book by Mark Twain: ‘The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine.’

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They Wrote Science Fiction?

March 10, 2014Lisa Tate9

In celebration of National Reading Month, here are some of the “lesser-known” science-fiction writers who did pretty well in other genres.

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Google Doodle Celebrates Mark Twain

November 30, 2011Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Mark Twain’s birthday with a fun illustration: Tom Sawyer convincing another kid to whitewash the fence for him. Although it’s not shown in the picture, Tom even convinced the kids to pay him for the privilege …

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Celebrate Your Freedom During Banned Books Week

September 29, 2011Matt Blum

Historically, there have probably always been people whose response to ideas they didn’t like was not to present a different viewpoint, but to try to forcibly quiet the people with those ideas. This has been applied in many different ways, …

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What the Huck? Censoring the “N-Word” in Twain’s Classic Novel

January 5, 2011Matt Blum

Meet the downside to great works of literature being in the public domain: A sanitized version of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is in the offing. This new version, edited by a man named Alan Gribben who is actually a scholar …

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Celebrate Your Freedom During Banned Books Week

September 29, 2009Matt Blum

Historically, there have probably always been people whose response to ideas they didn’t like was not to present a different viewpoint, but to try to forcibly quiet the people with those ideas. This has been applied in many different ways, …

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