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Mark Twain Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
- Title
- Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
- ISBN-10
- 1591020247
- EAN
- 9781591020240
- ISBN
- 9781591020240
- Release Date
- 01/11/2002
- Release Year
- 2002
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
- Publisher
- Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Religious, Literary, American / General
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Twains witty vision of what heaven "is really like" is told from the point of view of the recently deceased Captain Stormfield. In a folksy narration peppered with sailors jargon, the amiable, altogether down-to-earth merchant marine describes a series of amusingly disconcerting revelations about the next world. Sitting on a cloud strumming a harp all day turns out to be insufferably boring; being eternally youthful also has its drawbacks when the captain finds himself not mixing well with a crowd of insipid teenagers; and Native Americans so outnumber whites in the North American district of Paradise that the average white Anglo-Saxon male has trouble finding someone to talk to. In fact the outlandish dimensions and characteristics of heaven utterly explode every human conception. This funny, satirical spoof on human pretensions about the importance of our species in the grand scheme of things was the last published work by Mark Twain. The main character and plot were inspired by the dream of an actual sea captain whom Twain had known. Published at the beginning of the 20th century, when astronomy had just begun to reveal the huge expanse of outer space and traditional religious concepts of our place in the universe had become inadequate, Twains humorous vision of the afterlife seems to reflect the new scientific awareness of the awesome cosmos that confronts us and the feelings of insignificance that this discovery produced. Two years after publication of this "extract," originally planned as a six-chapter book, Twain himself shipped off to follow in Captain Stormfields wake.
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Publisher
Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1591020247
ISBN-13
9781591020240
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2340412
Product Key Features
Book Title
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Religious, Literary, American / General
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in.
Item Height
0.3in.
Item Width
5.4in.
Item Weight
6.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps1322.E98 2002
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-031843
Dewey Decimal
Fic
Series
Literary Classics Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Number of Pages
153 Pages
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