Christian Science (Esprios Classics) - Mark Twain

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Résumé :
Christian Science is a 1907 book by the American writer Mark Twain (1835-1910). The book is a collection of essays Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910). Twain's first article about Christian Science was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. A humorous work of fiction, it describes how he fell over a cliff while walking in Austria, breaking several bones. A Christian Science practitioner who lived nearby was sent for, but could not attend immediately and so undertook to provide an absent healing....

Biographie:
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Sommaire:
Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, one of the central figures of American literature and one of the sharpest comic voices in the English language. Born in Missouri in 1835, Twain worked as a printer, riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, and author, drawing from American speech, travel, politics, frontier life, and the contradictions of the nation around him. His major works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.Twain's fiction is funny because it is exact, and dangerous because the joke usually has teeth. He wrote about childhood, race, class, technology, empire, religion, greed, sentimentality, and the foolishness of human certainty with a voice that could be playful one moment and merciless the next. In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, he brought that comic intelligence to time travel and Arthurian legend, creating one of the great speculative satires of modern literature....