Countess: Mark Twain: Films & Websites

Celluloid Mark Twain

Mark Twain
Call Number: AV 791.43 mar2001
ISBN: 0780636805
A Florentine Films production ; produced by Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan & Geoffrey C. Ward ; directed by Ken Burns. PBS Home Video ; Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2001.
The Golden age of American oratory by Written and narrated by Richard Katula
Call Number: AV 808.51 GOL2005
The rhetoric of many great speakers from this era of oratorial culture are featured : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglas, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Mary Livermore, William Jennings Bryan, and others. It recounts an important social movement in American history, highlighting the role of oratory in the development of American society and the centrality of rhetoric in higher education.

Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain

Websites

The Official Web Site for Mark Twain
Mark Twain in His Times
Written and Directed by Stephen Railton
Department of English, University of Virginia

Produced by The Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
Mark Twain Quotations
Mark Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections, &
Related Resources.
TwainWeb
TwainWeb is the web service of the Mark Twain Forum, a mailing list for persons having a scholarly interest in the life and writings of Mark Twain (1835-1910).
Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Mark Twain House & Museum (Hartford, Connecticut)
"The Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author’s Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived there, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court."
Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum (Hannibal, Missouri)
"The mission of the Mark Twain Home Foundation is to promote awareness and appreciation of the life and works of Mark Twain and to demonstrate the relevance of his stories and ideas to citizens of the world."
Bartleby.com (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)
Bartlett's is a standard reference source for locating quotations (our library has several print editions).
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: Text, Illustrations, and Early Reviews
Mart Twain Project
A collaboration between the Mark Twain Papers and Project of the Bancroft Library, the California Digital Library, and the University of California Press.
Ken Burns' Mark Twain (PBS)
This is the companion web site for the PBS Ken Burns documentary (2001).
The Mark Twain Project
Developed by the Mark Twain Papers Project, the California Digital Library, and the University of California Press.

Mark Twain: Films & Websites

Big River "You Oughta Be Here With Me"

Celluloid Mark Twain

Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain

Websites

Big River (Broadway Musical)