The complete online text of Eve's Diary, Complete 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...

Sunday 15 January 6pm: Completely exhausted by entire day of date-preparation. Being a woman is worse than being a farmer. There is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done: legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, skin exfoliated and...

President Nixon had his tapes. Sen. Packwood has his diaries. And somehow it seems that the privacy of diaries elicits more support. None of our respondents defended Packwood against the complaints of sexual harassment that have been raised . But of 235 callers, 160...