Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (eBook, ePUB) - Twain, Mark
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The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp (generated by his preconceptions of heaven); 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 (an early parody of celebrity culture). Twain uses this story to show his view that the common conception of Heaven is ludicrous, and points out the…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp (generated by his preconceptions of heaven); 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 (an early parody of celebrity culture). 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.
Autorenporträt
Mark Twain (1835-1910), né Samuel Langhorne Clemens, était un écrivain, humoriste et conférencier américain connu pour son esprit et sa description vivante de la vie américaine au XIXe siècle. Il est largement considéré comme l'un des plus grands auteurs américains. Les ¿uvres de Twain explorent souvent les thèmes de la race, de la société et de la moralité. Ses romans les plus célèbres comprennent Les aventures de Tom Sawyer et Les aventures de Huckleberry Finn, qui sont considérés comme des chefs-d'¿uvre de la littérature américaine.