The complete online text of Extracts from Adam's Diary, translated from the original ms. 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...

ZIPORA TALSHIR, 1 Esdras: From Origin to Translation (SBLSCS 47; Atlanta: Scholars, 1999). Pp. xii + 305. $57. Talshir's investigation of 1 Esdras consists of three main parts: first, the book is compared with Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah in order to establish its...

(TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS.) (Line breaks indicate omitted material) MONDAY.--This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used...