Letters from the Earth an exuberantly eclectic collection. There are comments on James Fenimore Cooper, English architecture, and the civilization of the French, as well as proposals for a simplified alphabet and a parody of books on etiquette. In this collection, he 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 down through the generations. His voice is as vigorous and blistering as ever, capable of surprising truth and provoking laughter in the most unlikely places.
This is vintage Twain-sharp, witty, imaginative, wildly funny. Virtually none of the material in Letters from the Earth was published in Twain’s lifetime and the manuscript was only approved by his executors in 1962. It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain’s life (1904-09), when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters. “The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916.The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is that of one of the great masters of American writing.”-New York Times Book Review Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of celebrated American author Mark Twain (18351910).
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