Mark Twain's literary works have intrigued and inspired readers
from the late 1860s to the present. His varied experiences as a
journeyman printer, river boat pilot, prospector, journalist,
novelist, humorist, businessman, and world traveller, combined with
his incredible imagination and astonishing creativity, enabled him
to devise some of American literature's most memorable characters
and engaging stories. Twain had a complicated relationship with
Christianity. He strove to understand, critique, and sometimes
promote various theological ideas and insights. His religious
perspective was often inconsistent and even contradictory. While
many scholars have overlooked Twain's strong interest in religious
matters, others disagree sharply about his religious views-with
many labelling him a secularist, an agnostic, or an atheist. In
this compelling biography, Gary Scott Smith shows that throughout
his life Twain was an entertainer, satirist, novelist, and
reformer, but also functioned as a preacher, prophet, and social
philosopher. Twain tackled universal themes with penetrating
insight and wit including the character of God, human nature, sin,
providence, corruption, greed, hypocrisy, poverty, racism, and
imperialism. Moreover, his life provides a window into the
principal trends and developments in American religion from 1865 to
1910.
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