For the album, see Letters from the Earth (album).
Letters from the Earth
First edition
Author
Mark Twain
Country
United States
Language
English
Publisher
Harper & Row
Publication date
1962 (written c. 1909)
Media type
Print
Pages
65
Collated by Bernard DeVoto[1]
Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) collated by Bernard DeVoto.[1] It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life (1904–1909), when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters.[2] The content concerns morality and religion and strikes a tone that is sarcastic—Twain's own term throughout the book. Initially, Twain's sole surviving child, Clara Clemens, objected to its publication in March 1939,[2] probably because of its controversial and iconoclastic views on religion, claiming it presented a "distorted"[3] view of her father. Henry Nash Smith helped change her position in 1960.[3] Clara explained her change of heart in 1962 saying that "Mark Twain belonged to the world" and that public opinion had become more tolerant.[2][4] She was also influenced to release the papers by her annoyance with Soviet reports that her father's ideas were being suppressed in the United States.[2] The papers were selected, edited and sequenced for the book in 1939 by Bernard DeVoto.[2]
^ ab"Mark Twain Papers & Project: A Brief History". Mark Twain Project. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
^ abcdeGelb, Arthur (August 24, 1962), "Anti-Religious Work by Twain, Long Withheld, to Be Published", The New York Times, p. 23, ISSN 0362-4331, retrieved 2008-04-22
^ abJones, Howard Mumford (September 23, 1962), "The Other Face of the Humorist", The New York Times, p. 306, ISSN 0362-4331, retrieved 2008-04-22
^"Mrs. Jacques Samossoud Dies; Mark Twain's Last Living Child", The New York Times (published November 21, 1962), p. 30, November 20, 1962, ISSN 0362-4331, retrieved 2008-04-23{{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
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