One honor Twain should have received but did not was the Nobel Prize for Literature. Of course it went to those far more important writers Sully Prudhomme, Theodor Mommsen, Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray, Giosuč Carducci, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Rudolf Eucken, Selma Lagerlöf, and Paul Heyse. The names fairly trip off the tongue, do they not? Tolstoy never received it either...nor Proust...nor Joyce....