The complete online text of The Stolen White Elephant 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...

The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-02-2008 White elephant -- Can a broke state really afford rebates? Date: 03-02-2008, Sunday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions TAKE ANY room in which New Jersey's finances are under serious consideration, and the property tax rebate...

Byline: DES KELLY WHITE ELEPHANTS Woodgate debut farce helps explode myths at Soccer Hollywood NOBODY actually scoffs out loud when the team are still referred to in breathless prose as the 'White Angels' or 'White Storm'. That says a lot for the...