The War Prayer (Harper Colophon Books) - Softcover

Twain, Mark

 
9780060911133: The War Prayer (Harper Colophon Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0060911131 ISBN 13: 9780060911133
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering. He tells the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy... for the destruction of human life.

Originally rejected for publication in 1905 as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine," this antiwar parable remained unpublished until 1923, when Twain's literary executor collected it in the volume Europe and Elsewhere. Handsomely illustrated by the artist and war correspondent Philip Groth, The War Prayer remains a relevant classic by an American icon.

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Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature of American fiction, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died in 1910.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0060911131
ISBN 13 
9780060911133
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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