My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

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PARIS, July 16.-Paris sorely regretted that Mark Twain did not cross the Channel to enliven her gayety with his humor. Then she was glad that he did not come. Paris is quick to forget and to forgive.

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings ...