My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you ...

PARIS, July 16.-Paris sorely regretted that Mark Twain did not cross the Channel to enliven her gayety with his humor. Then she was glad that he did not come. Paris is quick to forget and to forgive.

In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the most famous author in the world, with classics like “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1883 ...

The inscription, which Dr. Gribben identifies as Twain’s handwriting, suggests this book was acquired by Twain and his daughter Clara in Paris in 1894.

This week journalist Ron Chernow is publishing his eighth book, a rollicking and comprehensive portrait of Samuel Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, the humorist and orator who turned a ...

Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one ...