This etext from the University of Virginia provides a detailed look at Twain's novel "Huckleberry Finn". Included is a complete text with annotations, original illustrations and background on the illustrator, early reviews of the work,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and highlight details of sight in blue, time in red, and agency in green. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.

This lesson focuses on annotating or marking text to enhance understanding. It offers tools and techniques for marking text including adding marginal notes to annotated pages.

The National Gallery of Art features an online exhibition of the life and work of color-field painter Mark Rothko. Each painting that appears in the show is accompanied by explanatory text, some in the artist's own words.

Read the full text of Mark Twain's short story "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed". With links to other short stories by American writers.

This is a collection of 21 Grade-Leveled texts (4-12) on the topic International Revolutions. The world's had its fair share of international revolutions as people around the globe sought to create meaningful change. Learn about some of...

This is a collection of 8 Grade-Leveled texts (5-12) on the topic "The Gilded Age." Mark Twain named 1870-1900 "The Gilded Age" in hopes of capturing how the era of serious social problems was veiled by a thin layer of gold. While robber...

Text of Francisco Madero's call to Mexicans to take up arms against the government, which marks the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.

This resource presents a table of standard proofreading marks. The table indicates whether the marks would be used in the margin or in the text, but does not give examples of the marks in use.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Read the complete text of Dr. Seuss' "The Sneetches" and highlight things you understand in blue and things you do not understand in red. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as...

Contained here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and articles, and hundreds of images related to The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain.

This is the full text of the short story "A Burlesque Biography" by Mark Twain, an autobiography which has no relationship to Twain's real life.

This is the original, online PDF text of the novel Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain.

This is the original, online text of the essay "What Is Man?" by Mark Twain.

This collection from the University of Virginia provides a great deal of information about how Mark Twain created his works. Lots of recent reviews and articles are included.

Primary texts, such as music, photographs, and maps, allow students to examine how Mark Twain's life in Hannibal, Missouri, influenced his popular written works, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."