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Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) collated by Bernard DeVoto. [1] 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. [2] The content concerns morality and religion ...
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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.
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Mark Twain, Bernard DeVoto (Editor) Letters from the Earth is one of Mark Twain's posthumously published works. The essays were written during a difficult time in Twain's life; he was deep in debt and had lost his wife and one of his daughters. The book consists of a series of short stories, many of which deal with God and Christianity.
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Apr 21, 2011 · Article History. 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. The pieces in the anthology were written over a ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The collection is very long and uneven in quality, so this summary will cover the best known and most critically lauded of the pieces. The eponymous story, “Letters from the Earth,” is a set of eleven letters written by Satan to the archangels Gabriel and Michael about his travels. Satan finds human beliefs about themselves almost insane ...
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 ...
Jul 2, 2021 · The title story consists of eleven letters written by the archangel Satan to other archangels. This is Mark Twain at his darkest, raw, jeering, pulverizing yet still a brilliant humorist. Other short stories in the book include a bedtime story about a family of cats Twain wrote for his daughters, and an essay explaining why an anaconda is ...
