This paper explains that
Mark Twain's
satirical remarks about
religion can be found throughout his major works including "Innocents Abroad", "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn" and his one "Letters to Earth, which contains his opinions of the Bible and remains relatively unknown. The author points out that Twain was highly critical of
imperialism whether it was performed under the flag of a hereditary monarch or under the name of America's monetary royalty: Twain's "Innocents Abroad" and "Prince and the Pauper" are veiled satirical
criticism of Victorian Imperialism; whereas, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is
considered a criticism of early European Feudalism. The paper relates that "Huckleberry Finn" is considered to be Mark Twain's masterpiece; through the illiterate speech of his young protege Huck Finn, Samuel Clemens makes pointed
social commentary on the rich, the poor, the sober and the drunk and pokes at the church, the farmer, and the good "towner "as well. Many long quotes. Table of Contents Mark Twain as a Social Critic Mark Twain's World Karl Marx Mark Twain on Religion, God and the Bible Slavery and Prejudice Which Came First? A View of Post Civil War American Economics or Twain as Prophet of Profits Twain's Political Economy or a Tale of a Traveling Salesman Huckleberry Finn - A Tribute or a Trial of Transcendentalism
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