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Mark Twain's view of Christianity revealed

Long after his death, Samuel Langhorn Clemens, who wrote under the pen name "Mark Twain," is about to reveal all in his never-before published autobiography. The author and inventor of such classic American characters as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, felt that some of the things he wanted to say were too controversial to be revealed in his lifetime and stipulated that they not be published until one hundred years after his death. That was in 1910 and now that 2010 has arrived, the guardian of the autobiography, the University of California Berkeley's Bancroft Library is set to publish it in it's entirety.

More, including some of the quotes Mark Twain thought too controversial to be published while he was alive, here.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Bonaparte on July 10, 2010 at 1:18pm

Very interesting, thanks!

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on July 10, 2010 at 1:27pm

Even a hundred years ago, Clemens told it like it was (and is!). The tragedy is that he couldn't come straight out with that a century ago ... and even today, such words create controversy.

Permalink Reply by Gary Berg-Cross on April 9, 2011 at 10:35am

I posted a small blog called "What Would Mark Twain Say" on Secular Perspectives at http://secularhumanist.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-would-mark-twain-s...
This discussed the freedom of quotes late in life and such works as the Mysterious Stranger and comments on religion, hypocrisy, war and what we might now call truthiness.

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