The complete online text of A Dog's Tale by Mark Twain.

An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...

Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...

In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...

An oral history of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, which marks its 25th anniversary with this month's debut of the Further Tales of the City miniseries Further Tales of the City--the third miniseries based on Armistead Maupin's Tales novels--begins its four-week...

Arctic Tale dir. Sarah Robertson At first, Arctic Tale looks like a down-market March of the Penguim retread, with indifferent cinematography and a cheesy pop soundtrack. While the emperor penguins in MoP looked somewhat respectable in their anthropomorphic tuxedos, the fluffy polar...