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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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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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Review: 'A Disposition to Be Rich' relates a Wall Street con
A Disposition to Be Rich How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States Geoffrey C. Ward Alfred A. Knopf: 415 pp., $28.95. In 1863, the young...
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Joel Stein Mans 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: Kanye West, Randy Couture, Democratic Party, Facebook, Arts and Culture
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Author Joel Stein speaks with Colin McEnroe at the Mark Twain House on May 24
The Mark Twain House and Museum has always been a go-to place for literary events of all shapes and sizes. This week's no different: Time Magazine humorist Joel Stein (pictured) appears in dialogue with local media personality Colin McEnroe to deliver...
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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... -
Swift donates $4 million
Swift donates $4 million Taylor Swift, the country superstar who became a professional songwriter at 14 and released her first album at 16, is kicking in $4 million toward the creation of a new education center that will bear her name at the Country...Tags: Entertainment, Murray Cook, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Arts and Culture, Classical Music (genre)
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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...
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Ellen DeGeneres to receive Mark Twain humor award
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Ellen DeGeneres to receive Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
This fall, Ellen DeGeneres will join Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Fey, George Carlin and Will Ferrell in a very exclusive comedy club: recipients of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The Emmy-winning host of"The Ellen...Tags: Will Ferrell, Genesis (music group), Talk Shows (genre), Richard Pryor, Ellen DeGeneres
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Quick Takes: New at the Huntington
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino announced Tuesday that it had acquired a 16th century sculpture titled "St. George and the Dragon," which it was attributing to the Renaissance artist Giovan Angelo del Maino....Tags: Arts and Culture, Piers Morgan, George Carlin, New York City, St. George
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Rush Limbaugh enters Missouri hall of fame; not all are pleased
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Rush Limbaugh is in the Hall of Famous Missourians. The question now may be whether he’ll stay there. On Monday, Limbaugh was inducted into the hall in a secret ceremony that wasn’t advertised, that was closed to the...
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Today's Buzz: Is Rush Limbaugh a hall-of-famer?
Orlando Sentinel Editorial BoardConservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh was inducted Monday into the Hall of Famous Missourians. Limbaugh's bust joins an exclusive group that includes writer Mark Twain, baseball great Stan Musial and former president Harry Truman. News of the...Tags: Radio, Entertainment, Rush Limbaugh, Stan Musial
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