Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract_from_Captain_Stormfield%27s_Visit_to_Heaven Release date is 1997-09-01
Transcribed by David Price Transcribed by David Price
"Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" by Mark Twain is a short story first published in 1907. Captain Elias Stormfield embarks on a cosmic journey to Heaven, where he discovers an afterlife vastly different from conventional expectations. Through conversations with veteran resident Sandy McWilliams, Stormfield learns startling truths about celestial existence—from the real purpose of angel wings to the unexpected identities of Heaven's greatest celebrities. Twain satirizes traditional religious conceptions with characteristic humor and hyperbole, revealing an eternity far stranger than Earth's familiar assumptions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Satire Voyages, Imaginary Ship captains -- Fiction Religious fiction Heaven -- Fiction
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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract_from_Captain_Stormfield%27s_Visit_to_Heaven Release date is 1997-09-01
Transcribed by David Price Transcribed by David Price
"Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" by Mark Twain is a short story first published in 1907. Captain Elias Stormfield embarks on a cosmic journey to Heaven, where he discovers an afterlife vastly different from conventional expectations. Through conversations with veteran resident Sandy McWilliams, Stormfield learns startling truths about celestial existence—from the real purpose of angel wings to the unexpected identities of Heaven's greatest celebrities. Twain satirizes traditional religious conceptions with characteristic humor and hyperbole, revealing an eternity far stranger than Earth's familiar assumptions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Satire Voyages, Imaginary Ship captains -- Fiction Religious fiction Heaven -- Fiction
PS