Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

By Mark Twain

Book Overview

"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain. It first appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1725599112
• ISBN13: 9781725599116
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book and condition

This book arrived in great condition and in a timely manner. It was a joy to read!

An ounce of Twain is worth a pound of Handbook of the Soul

Tired of tedious, if earnest, pseudo-philosophizers who will give you all the secrets of universal happiness in ten minutes a day? Tired of smug pulpit-pounders who somehow, while still human, seem to "know" as much as any divinity you can think of? Then it's time to spend an hour with Mark Twain. Come on: you haven't given the old guy a minute since you had to read "Huckleberry Finn" in high school or college, and it's about time you did. Captain Stormfield's "Extract" is just the tonic your overburdened soul needs. Stormfield's heaven seems to let everybody in, and to do its best to fulfill every one of their dreams, until-- you guessed it--their expectations conflict. How can Moses, for example, be expected to greet every faithful Jew, Christian and Muslim, with hugs and kisses without 1] getting soaked with slobber, and 2] getting disgusted with his lack of free time? "[The patriarchs] are kind and gentle old Jews, but they ain't any fonder of kissing the emotional highlights of Brooklyn than you be." Enough said.