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The great American writer’s most controversial and suppressed work, Letters from Earth, consists of a series of detailed reports written by Satan to the Archangels Gabriel and Michael, in which the inhabitants of earth are described as long-suffering victims of their own ludicrous religious beliefs.
The essays were initially considered too “controversial” to publish, and were suppressed by Twain’s own family who felt that the writer’s reputation would be harmed if the depth of his dislike for Christianity, and his uncanny ability to see through all the foibles of human belief and the large number of biblical contradictions, became widely known.
It was only in 1962—more than fifty years after Twain’s death—that permission was finally granted by the family for the essays to be published.
They are without doubt some of Twain’s finest, funniest, and most sharp writing ever.
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