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Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (Perennial Classics)
Letters from the Earth Uncensored Writings - Perennial Classics
Author: Mark Twain, Bernard Augustine De Voto
"I have told you nothing about man that is not true." You must pardon me if I repeat that remark now and then in these letters; I want you to take seriously the things I am telling you, and I feel that if I were in your place and you in mine, I should need that reminder from time to time, to keep my credulity from flagging. In Letters from th...  more »Twain presents himself as the Father of History -- reviewing and interpreting events from the Garden of Eden through the Fall and the Flood, translating the papers of Adam and his descendants through the generations. First published fifty years after his death, this eclectic collection is vintage Twain: sharp, witty, imaginative, complex, and wildly funny.
ISBN-13: 9780060518653
ISBN-10: 0060518650
Publication Date: 2/2004
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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My husband read this book and loved it. He found it to be clever, intelligent, and classic Twain. I had a little trouble getting through it, I guess it took a little more work to read it than I was willing to give it. There's a lot of good, irreverant satire, don't read it if you can't deal with someone poking fun at traditional religion.


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