The complete online text of Doctor Claudius, A True Story by Francis Marion Crawford.

The verdict of literary historians and academic critics upon the fiction writers of the years between 1883 and 1909--the period when Francis Marion Crawford was writing novels--has long since been rendered in favor of William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, an...

Jerri Nielsen was trying to escape monsters in her personal life when she volunteered to work at a South Pole research station in 1998. What she ended up with, in 11 Antarctic months, was a near- death experience, international celebrity status, and a new...

So, it has come to this. The Red Sox are giving the ball today to the best pitcher ever to wear "Clover Park" on his uniform jersey in a recreation league in Topton, Pa. That may not be as ominous as it sounds:...