Letters from the Earth Author:Mark Twain "This book will never be published... in fact, it couldn't be, because it would be a felony." — So wrote Mark Twain to a friend in 1909 and until now most of the remarkable pieces in this book were considered too controversial for publication. — Contains letters, papers, partial manuscripts and unfinished works in progress. — Covered: Letters From ... more »the Earth; Papers of the Adam Family; A Cat-Tale; Cooper's Prose Style; Official Report to the I.I.A.S.; The Gorky Incident; Simplified Spelling; Something About Repentance; From an English Notebook; From the Manuscript of 'A Tramp Abroad': The French and the Comanches; From An Unfinished Burlesque of Books on Etiquette; The Damned Human Race; and The Great Dark."« less