Concerning the American Language: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on the 30th November 1835 and is far better known by his pen name of Mark Twain. An American writer and humorist of the first order he is perhaps best known for his novels `The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and its sequel `The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' which are often described with that mythic line The Great American Novel.

Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri which would later provide the backdrop to these great novels. Apprenticed to...