Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...

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Mark Twain chronicled his experiences living and working out West in his book Roughing It, published in 1872. In this excerpt from the book's fourth chapter, Twain describes his 1861 journey by ...