From Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
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8vo. 8 x 5.5 inches. [vi] + 362 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, with gilt block including author's initials. A little wear to extremities and spine sunned. Some scattered foxing, including plate margins, but otherwise a very good copy. Bombay Bookseller's stamp. Signature on first free endpaper. Illustrated by 3 photographic plates, including portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature, protected by tissue guard. Decorated by device on title page. Two essays on Christian Science by Mark Twain collected into book form. The first part on religion and its healing claims in general and Christian Science in particular begins with a humorous fictitious article on his falling over a cliff in Austria and breaking some bones, and was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. with later additional material. The second part with material written from 1903 takes the form of a critique of Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), the founder of the faith. In fact it may be considered that Twain displayed an ambivalent attitude to Christian Science, coupling hostility towards its founder, whom he also professed to admire, as a threat to US democracy, with an acceptance of some of its healing claims (see Squires, Healing the Nation, Indiana UP, 2017). ART / LITERATURE RELIGION LIT. NON-FICTION THEOLOGY- AMERICAN 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED ART / LITERATURE. Seller Inventory # 28404
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Title: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. With Notes containing ...
Publisher: Harper and Brothers., London and New York
Publication Date: 1907
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