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Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) collated by Bernard DeVoto. It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life (1904–1909), when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters.
Letters from the Earth, miscellany of fiction, essays, and notes by Mark Twain, published posthumously in 1962. Bernard De Voto, Twain’s second literary executor, compiled the writings in 1939, but publication of the work was held up for two decades by Twain’s daughter Clara.
In Letters from the Earth, Satan reports back to heaven in a series of epistles making light of religion. He explains that Noah and his family were all disease ridden, since God's command to preserve two of every animal also applied to microbes.
Letters From The Earth. by Mark Twain. Harper & Row, 1962, 1974 originally written in 1909, according to Mark Twain A to. Z and Mark Twain's Last Days. The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall.
Feb 17, 2004 · “Letters From the Earth” is a sharp, witty, frequently funny, irreverent, and clever romp through features of organized religion and man’s behavior. This book places Twain, one of history’s greatest literary treasures—despite those who try to denigrate Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for being a product of their times—in his larger role as ...
Aug 20, 2013 · Letters From the Earth is a somber collection of essays and stories written by Mark Twain after the death of his wife and one of his daughters. Satan writes a probing letter to his fellow archangels Michael and Gabriel about the inconsistencies of human religious faith, in the title story.
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Jan 18, 2014 · Letters from the Earth (read by John Greenman) is one of Mark Twain's posthumously published works. The essays were written during a difficult time in Twain's life, and completed shortly before his death in 1910.
