Letters From The Earth edition by Mark Twain Literature Fiction eBooks
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Letters From The Earth
by Mark Twain (1909)
Mark Twain talks about his personal views on religion, the Bible and God, in these five writings.
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"Samuel Langhorne Clemens... better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists and European royalty.
Clemens enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain 'the father of American literature.'"
Letters From The Earth edition by Mark Twain Literature Fiction eBooks
This book was such a relief to read. As a former second generation fundamentalist christian, I have had a lot of grief over whether or not I made the right decision in walking away. There were just so many things about the sect that I couldn't seem to wrap my mind around and reading this book was like reading something I wrote. So many things were wrapped up in my mind and Mark really had a way of saying everything I didn't know I was thinking. Incredibly refreshing to know I'm not alone.Product details
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Letters From The Earth edition by Mark Twain Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
A searingly cynical commentary on the stupidity of humans for believing there is a wise and benign God looking over them (written from the point of view of an angel visiting earth). I loved this book as a teenager; find it a little unsubtle now, but still a good read.
This version was bought as a gift; the actual book has been in my library for decades and is among the rare volumes that get re-read. Here Twain makes mince of sacred cows in a fashion I'd be tempted to call inimitable if it weren't for Terry Pratchett, whose "Small Gods" carries on in the same spirit. Much of the material in these Twain essays is true laugh-long-and-loud stuff. His send-ups of elaborate Victorian etiquette spring first to mind, including such instructions as how to preserve proper decorum while saving someone from a fire. Much as I love "Huck" (especially the Stephen Dowling Butts riff), I'd pick this volume in a heartbeat, if I could have only one work by Mark Twain. If you haven't read it yet, you're in luck; enjoy yourself!
Constructed as a series of letters to the archangles, written by Lucifer who has been temporarily banished from the heavens to the Earth, in which he shares his observations of "man's" religiosity. Chock full of acerbic, sarcastic commentary on the nature of peoples interactions with religious concepts. One of my spouse's all time favorite reads.
A favorite gift of mine to my friends. The book should be re read with an open mind. After all it is just Lucifer writing letters back to Gabriel in Heaven telling him how screwed up the world we live in has become, and what he thinks of humans.
Yes.
Father History discussing time immemorial and the ultimate creature. (We are egotistical, are we not?)
I have many of his works, including the first and second editions of his autobiography from the Mark Twain Project. His foresight and insights are truly amazing to me.
This could have been written within the past year and still be on target. His observations of the human condition are unparalleled. Enlightening, bright, dark, inspiring, foreboding, humor, pathos.........add your own descriptives
We don't need psychiatrists, we need to make this book mandatory reading in all schools.
His is a treasure of the ages and this work proves it.
Enjoy.
This "Letters from the Earth" is only "Letters from the Earth" itself. Let me explain The full volume titled "Letters from the Earth" is [was?] a full-sized book containing not only "Letters from the Earth" itself -- which is, itself, absolutely marvellous and will never be forgotten by anyone who reads it -- but also a number of other small masterpieces by Twain, all discovered posthumously and edited and published by one Bernard DeVoto. THAT's what I thought I was buying [my own old copy has disappeared]. What a disappointment. So I'm sending this on as a gift for someone, and trying once again to find the real thing. And THIS thing doesn't even have page numbers!
Letters from the Earth came close to never being published - so controversial were Twain's views on the negative aspects of organized religions. His daughter Clara, executor of her father's estate, refused to allow the manuscript to see the light of day, thinking she was protecting Twain's reputation. Fortunately, she was finally persuaded, 50 year's after Twain's death, to change her mind after a family friend convinced her that "Mark Twain belonged to the world" and that by the 1960's the public's opinions about religion were changing. It was only then that the 1939 manuscript edited by Bernard DeVoto was made available to the world.
Letters from the Earth confirms Twain's world-class status as an acute and objective observer of the human condition - particularly for the hypocritical aspects of institutional religions whose goals Twain saw were to control mankind, not serve it. Letters from the Earth should be required reading for every high school-er (and adult who hasn't yet read it); I can think of no better text to stimulate critical thinking about religion in both its beneficial and self-serving aspects - especially in this era when Christianity has been conflated by some with greedy Capitalism. Twain himself described his writing in this work as "sarcastic" - but it was sarcasm with well-deserved purpose. One of my favorite quotes (and there are many) describes the Creator's view of his own handiwork "He took a pride in man; man was his finest invention; man was his pet, after the housefly . . . ."
This book was such a relief to read. As a former second generation fundamentalist christian, I have had a lot of grief over whether or not I made the right decision in walking away. There were just so many things about the sect that I couldn't seem to wrap my mind around and reading this book was like reading something I wrote. So many things were wrapped up in my mind and Mark really had a way of saying everything I didn't know I was thinking. Incredibly refreshing to know I'm not alone.
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