Marianna Mayer, Adapted by, Mark Twain, Author, Marianna Mayer, Author Dial Books $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2099-2 Made less satirical than Mark Twain's classic and simplified for younger ...
From the inscription in this copy of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," the book appears to have been a Christmas gift from Twain to his daughter Clara Clemens in 1886. The inscription is signed "From Papa." ...
Kaplan's primary purpose: his book is nonportentous and nonideological, concerned with telling Clemens' story rather than with making points about America. He has mastered the Mark Twain ...
The mystery of Mark Twain’s disappearance is not the only mystery in the book. There is, too, the murder of Cassi and the disappearance of her jewels, along with other, relatively minor ...