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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain is misdirected and arrives at the wrong gate.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427072760
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Mark Twain and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read - today. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Mark Twain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1909 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there warn't any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush together. But it was generally pretty one-sided, because I sailed by them the same as if they were standing still. An ordinary comet don't make more than about 200,000 miles a minute. Of course when I came across one of that sort-like Encke's and Halley's comets, for instance-it warn't anything but just a flash and a vanish, you see. You couldn't rightly call it a race. It was as if the comet was a gravel-train and I was a telegraph despatch. But after I got outside of our astronomical system, I used to flush a comet occasionally that was something like. We haven't got any such comets-ours don't begin. One night I was swinging along at a good round gait, everything taut and trim, and the wind in my favor-I judged I was going about a million miles a minute-it might have been more, it couldn't have been less-when I flushed a most uncommonly big one about three points off my starboard bow. By his stern lights I judged he was bearing about northeast-and-by-north-half-east. Well, it was so near my course that I wouldn't throw away the chance; so I fell off a point, steadied my helm, and went for him.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven and Is Shakespeare Dead? written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781974675647
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven; his accidental misplacement; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp (generated by his preconceptions of heaven); and the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and Moses, who according to Twain become as distant to most people in heaven as living celebrities are on Earth. Twain uses this story to show his view that the common conception of heaven is ludicrous and points out the incongruities of such beliefs.A lot of the description of Heaven is given by the character Sandy McWilliams, a cranberry farmer who is very experienced in the ways of heaven. Sandy gives Stormfield, a newcomer, the description in the form of a conversational question-and-answer session. The heaven described by him is similar to the conventional Christian heaven, but includes a larger version of all the locations on Earth, as well as of everywhere in the universe. All civilized life-forms from all planets travel to heaven, often through interplanetary space, and land at a particular gate, which is reserved for people from that planet. Each newcomer must thereafter give his name and planet of origin to a gatekeeper, who sends him in to heaven. Once inside, the person spends eternity living as it thinks best, usually according to its true (sometimes undiscovered) talent. According to one of the characters, a cobbler who "has the soul of a poet in him won't have to make shoes here", implying that he would instead turn to poetry and achieve perfection in it. On special occasions, a procession of the greatest people in history is formed, including Buddha, William Shakespeare, Homer, Muhammed, Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah and several unknown people whose talents far exceeded those of the world's pivotal figures, but were never famous.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533442437
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (Annotated) written by Mark Twain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain. It first appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. This was the last story published by Twain during his life.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427072744
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Mark Twain and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read - today. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553901966
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of–in the words of H. L. Mencken–“the father of our national literature.”
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Annotated written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain. It first appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. This was the last story published by Twain during his life
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427072752
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Mark Twain and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read - today. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520270002
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (Esprios Classics) written by Mark Twain and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2022-04-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain. It first appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. This was the last story published by Twain during his life. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; and the general obsession of souls with the celebrities of Heaven such as Adam, Moses, and Elijah, who according to Twain become as distant to most people in Heaven as living celebrities are on Earth. Twain uses this story to show his view that the common conception of Heaven is ludicrous, and points out the incongruities of such beliefs with his characteristic adroit usage of hyperbole.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387005679
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Mark Twain and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-27 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290003735
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Mark Twain and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820316504
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Bible According to Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the most important writings by Mark Twain in which he used biblical settings, themes, and figures. Featuring Twain's singular portrayals of God, Adam, Eve, Satan, Methuselah, Shem, St. Peter, and others, the writings stand among Twain's most imaginative expressions of his views on human nature and humankind's relation to the Creator and the universe. Composed over four decades (1871-1910), the writings range from farce to fantasy to satire, each one bearing the mark of Twain's unmistakable wit and insight. Among the many delights in store for readers are Adam and Eve's divergent accounts of their domestic troubles; Methuselah's discussion of an ancient version of baseball, complete with a parody of baseball jargon; Shem's hand-wringing account of how material shortages and labor troubles were hampering the progress of the ark his father, Noah, was building; a description of the disruptive actions of the fire-and-brimstone evangelist Sam Jones upon arriving in heaven; Captain Stormfield's revelations of what heaven is really like; Satan's musings on our puerile concepts of the afterlife; and Twain's advice on how to dress and tip properly in heaven. Twain's humor, however, is never gratuitous. As readers laugh their way through this volume, they will find ample evidence of Twain's concerns about scriptural fallacies and inconsistencies, the Bible's rather flat portrayal of important characters, and our limited notions about the nature and meaning of our own--and God's--existence. Many of the pieces in this collection, even the most lighthearted, might still be considered controversial; of some of the darker pieces, Twain himself acknowledged that they would be heretical in any age. Moreover, these writings are valuable cultural artifacts of a time when, across the Western world, fundamental religious beliefs were being called into question by the precepts of Darwinism and the rapid advances of science and technology. Several of this volume's selections are previously unpublished; others, like Letters from the Earth, are classics. Virtually all have been newly edited to reflect as closely as possible Twain's final intentions for their form and content. For serious Twain devotees, editors Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough have supplied an abundance of background material on the writings, including details on the history of their composition, publication, and relevance to the Twain canon.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Oxford Mark Twain
ISBN 13 : 9780199733491
Total Pages : 14176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Mark Twain (Full Set) written by Mark Twain and published by Oxford Mark Twain. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 14176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents facsimile first editions of Twain's works that include all original illustrations. Each volume contains introductions by literary heavyweights including Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley, among others.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781975995263
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven was the last story published by the famous author Mark Twain in his lifetime. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his cosmic journey through heaven. Through his travels, much by his own design, he meets several celebrities, though not in the way you would expect, but much in the way Twain is known for writing. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
