Mark Twain and His Influence of Religion, includes Works Cited

Throughout his writings and his life, Mark Twain earned a reputation as a cynical critic of Christianity, as illustrated by observation that "if Christ were here, there is one thing he would not be, a Christian." (Twain, Mark Twain s Notebook 328). In Twain's collection of letters and essays contained in Letters from the Earth, his writings include several letters which interpret different religions and the Bible. Excerpts from Adam's, Eve's and Shem's Diary describe the …

…d. ---. The Innocents Abroad. 1869. Ed. Shelley Fisher Fishkin. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. ---. Letters from the Earth. 1909. What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings. Vol. 19. Ed. Paul Baender. Berkeley: U California P, 1973. 19 vols. 401-454. ---. Mark Twain s Notebook. Prepared for publication by Albert Bigelow Paine. New York: Harper and Row, 1935. ---. No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger. Text established by William M. Gibson and the staff of the Mark Twain Project. Berkeley: U California P, 1969