Publication

2002-09-13 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

82,000 words, Guess

Page Count

328 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100195132939
  • ISBN-139780195132939
  • Goodreads1000974
  • LibraryThing2679854
  • Open LibraryOL7389026M

First Sentence

Around the summer of 1874, Mark Twain rapidly read and digested W.E.H. Lecky's History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869), writing the following in the margins: "If I have understood this book aright, it proves two things beyond shadow or question: 1: That Christianity is the very invention of Hell itself; 2 & that Christianity is the most precious and elevating and ennobling boon ever vouchsafed to the world."

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