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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, one of America¿s greatest and most popular novelists, made his family home in Hartford, Connecticut starting in 1871. Best known by his pen name Mark Twain and for his keen wit and satirical bent, he was the author of ¿Adventures of Huckleberry Finn¿, ¿The Adventures of Tom Sawyer¿ and ¿Roughing It.¿ He published more than 30 books and hundreds of short stories and was a well-known figure in political, literary and artistic circles. For the first few years the Clemenses rented a house in the heart of Nook Farm, a residential area that was home to numerous writers, publishers and other prominent figures. In 1873, Sam's focus turned toward social criticism. He and Har...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, one of America¿s greatest and most popular novelists, made his family home in Hartford, Connecticut starting in 1871. Best known by his pen name Mark Twain and for his keen wit and satirical bent, he was the author of ¿Adventures of Huckleberry Finn¿, ¿The Adventures of Tom Sawyer¿ and ¿Roughing It.¿ He published more than 30 books and hundreds of short stories and was a well-known figure in political, literary and artistic circles. For the first few years the Clemenses rented a house in the heart of Nook Farm, a residential area that was home to numerous writers, publishers and other prominent figures. In 1873, Sam's focus turned toward social criticism. He and Hartford Courant publisher Charles Dudley Warner co-wrote The Gilded Age, a novel that attacked political corruption, big business and the American obsession with getting rich that seemed to dominate the era. Ironically, a year after its publication, the Clemenses' elaborate, $40,000. 19-room house on Farmington Avenue was completed. It was in that house that Twain and his wife Olivia raised three daughters, Susy, Clara and Jean, over the next 17 years. During those years Twain completed some of his most famous works. He enjoyed great financial success through his work but continuously made bad investments. In 1891, the family moved to Europe to save money and when Twain¿s publishing company failed in 1894, he embarked on a world lecture tour to earn money. Two years later, Twain¿s favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis on a visit home to Hartford. The family could never return to live there. The house was sold in 1903 to a local family. It was saved from demolition in 1927, eventually restored and turned into a museum. The Twain house architecture is difficult to define because of its combination of elements. It has deep porches typical of American Gilded Age homes but it also includes textures and colors that reflect Twain¿s globe trotting, with influences from Africa, the Far East and Europe. The interiors of the house were designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The house grew to include a museum that opened in November 2003.
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Online Dish: Should the N-word Be Banned from Mark Twain's Books?
KIAHMark Twain must be rolling over in his grave after publishers are changing his works of literature. The problem is Twain used the N-word in the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer". The N-word appears 219 times in "Huck Finn"and four times in...Tags: Entertainment, Alabama, Social Issues, Movies, Slavery
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University of Missouri Press to close, after 54 years
Jacket CopyThe University of Missouri will pull the plug on its 54 year old press, just the latest in a string of academic publishing casualties... -
Softball: Southern Section playoff pairings (updated)
Varsity Times InsiderSOUTHERN SECTION SOFTBALL PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 Quarterfinals, Thursday, 3:15 p.m. #1 Norco vs. Foothill at Santiago Canyon College (Orange) Esperanza at Vista Murrieta Edison at #3 Orange Lutheran #2 Garden Grove Pacifica at Corona Santiago DIVISION 2... -
Author Sightings: Ann Patchett, Joel Stein, Kristan Higgins
The Hartford CourantJoel Stein, the Time magazine humor columnist who has made an art form of being hilariously self-absorbed, will give a talk in the "A Pen Warmed Up in Hell" series Thursday, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. at The Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave.,...Tags: Entertainment, Amy Bloom, Awards and Prizes, Walker Evans, Human Interest
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TMI: novelist Toni Andrews
Name: Toni Andrews Age: 52 Occupation: Novelist Found at: Mark Twain House & Museum (Hartford) You became an author at 44-years-old. What prompted you to become a writer? The story on my website (toniandrews.com) really is true, even...
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Digging in the dirt, author Christopher Benfey unearths his family's story
Most memoirs are mush. Given the tender emotions, fragile reminiscences and flights of fancy that tend to flit and twirl within your average autobiography, the genre is known for its shifting, dreamlike core, not its steely spine. Christopher Benfey...
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Documentary About Gay Bishop Center Of Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
The Hartford CourantGene Robinson is the star of the centerpiece film in this year's Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. He would love to attend the screening, but he can't. "My day job keeps me kind of busy," Robinson jokes. Robinson's "day job" is the Episcopal...Tags: Entertainment, London (England), Christianity, Documentary (genre), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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Humorist Joel Stein To Man Up At Twain House
The Hartford CourantJoel Stein writes The Awesome Column, a tasty blend of satire, snark and self-absorption, for Time magazine. In it, he recently riffed on why he'd never wanted a home burglar alarm, although his "lovely wife, Cassandra," as he habitually refers to her...Tags: Princeton University, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Facebook, Satire (genre), Randy Couture
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Cannes 2012: 'Rocky' producer to take fight to Rebekah Brooks
24 FramesFew media figures get liberal pundits' blood boiling more than Rebekah Brooks, the disgraced former News of the World editor who has been criminally charged in the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal. But for moviedom, there’s a different question: Can... -
New education cuts create more harm
Our state's constitution has promised its young people "a thorough and efficient public education." Our state's leaders, however, have reneged on that promise — first, with last year's crippling $900 million cut, and now with another $90 million...Tags: Government Debt, Allentown
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Author John Green wins Tribune's Young Adult Literary Prize
INDIANAPOLIS -- Taping a YouTube video in a rented studio here, John Green explains that Renaissance-era Renaissance man Copernicus didn't do it all on his own, that he actually seems to have had some help from previous Islamic scholarship. "So at...
Tags: John Green, Arts, Awards and Prizes, Steve Johnson, University of Chicago
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