Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. This book highlights Twain's attractions to

Smith offers an engaging biography of one of the world's most inspiring, humorous, and provocative authors. He analyses Mark Twain's constantly changing views o

Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, this book examines three profoundly influential and vastly different friendships in the life of Mark

This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange

Mark Twain is sometimes envisioned as a kind of nineteenth-century American offshoot of Voltaire. Like his French counterpart, he expressed a deeply felt indign