Letters from the Earth

Letters from the Earth, miscellany of fiction, essays, and notes by Mark Twain, published posthumously in 1962. Bernard De Voto, Twain’s second literary executor, compiled the writings in 1939, but publication of the work was held up for two decades by Twain’s daughter Clara. The pieces in the anthology were written over a period of 40 years and are characterized by a sense of ironic pessimism. The title piece comprises letters written by Satan to...