Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven [Kindle Edition]

Mark Twain (Author)

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About the Author

Mark Twain began his career in letters as a printer's apprentice at the age of 12. He worked as a typesetter and hack writer until a trip down the Mississippi inspired him to become a steamboat pilot. Twain was a popular humorist, a failed silver miner, an inventor, a pacifist anti-imperialist, and a vegetarian. He had a strong interest in the paranormal. Twain's novel Huckleberry Finn has profoundly influenced the development of American storytelling.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 88 KB
• Print Length: 76 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Public Domain Books (September 1, 1997)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000JMKXYW
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,676 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not Twain's best work, but not his worst, September 25, 2009

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This review is from: Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (Kindle Edition)

This is Twain's satire of contemporary religious mores. It was the last fiction he published in his lifetime, and like much of his later work, it's slightly cynical and very sarcastic, although more upbeat than, for example, _Letters from the Earth_ -- mankind comes across as looking fairly silly overall, but on the whole positive.

Probably of most interest to Twain fans who want to read everything of his that they can, or to scholars writing on Twain's religious views, more than to casual Twain readers. It's mildly amusing throughout, but no more than that, and Twain certainly wrote many other works that were more entertaining and more insightful.

It's a fairly short read, at 630 kindle "locations".