The complete online text of Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again 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...

SHOWDOWN ON IRAQ Friends abroad matter, but what really counts is values By BILL TAMMEUS Sunday, February 16, 2003 The year I was born, the sworn enemies of the United States included Germany, Japan and Italy. Today, they are allies,...

One of the nicest ways to see a city or country is to be shown around by friends. Now, many of us can have friends in faraway places, thanks to the hospitality programs started by several destinations. The free programs pair visitors...