The Bible According to Mark Twain: Irreverent Writings on Eden, Heaven, and the Flood by America's Master Satirist
by Mark Twain
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Author: Mark TwainEditor: Howard G. Baetzhold
Editor: Joseph B. McCullough
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-12-06
ISBN: 0684824396
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Touchstone
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Book Review: Without any doubt this book belongs on everyone's bookshelf.
Summary: 5 Stars
Marvelous. Compelling. Funny. (How rare to review a new work by Mark Twain!) This book is rare, old scotch with just enough ice. It's a fine, black Connecticut cigar. It's a wide tie with a brave picture on it. It's a moonlit sail on the seas of time, and the distant rasping, drawling voice of God, winking at the human race through his prophet Samuel.
Get it. Read it a little at a time. Hope like hell somebody finds some more papers out there in California that nobody has had the chance at, and that the small minded are at lunch and the office boy leaves them in the outbox and they, too, come to print while yet we live.
No one can possibly get past the mythic Mark Twain to a deeper understanding of the great writer and his later passions without a thorough reading of the Eden stories, and an enjoyment of his darker humor. As an anthology, this book is a delight. But this work includes previously unpublished writings, and so it must be in any Twain lover's library. The author of this book is Clemens himself. The editors have, with appropriate reverence and irreverence, expanded the horizons of our understanding.
Hoorays and war-whoops all round.
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