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Letters from the Earth

by Mark Twain

First published 1962

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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, pointing out that their conception of heaven leaves out everything humans find most pleasurable in life (particularly sex). He also considers God’s hypocrisies: not forgiving Adam and Eve even though humans are supposed to forgive transgressors; forbidding jealousy but then calling himself a jealous God; killing all the large animals during Noah’s flood even though they weren’t guilty of anything; allowing cruelty and misery to torment the innocent.

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Mark Twain, 1835–1910, United States.

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ISBN
978-0-06-092105-7 +9
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ISBNs
  • 978-0-06-092105-7
  • 978-1-61534-109-2
  • 978-0-318-16715-2
  • 978-0-06-080331-5
  • 978-0-06-228726-7
  • 978-1-60386-568-5
  • 978-0-8488-1770-1
  • 978-0-06-014435-7
  • 978-1-931056-02-1
  • 978-0-06-051865-3
Author
Twain, Mark, 1835–1910
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Letters from the Earth / Mark Twain.
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Subjects

  • Etiquette
  • Humor
  • Specimens
  • Miniature books
  • Religion
  • American wit and humor
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • American literature
  • Science fiction
  • Humor, general