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The War Prayer
M A R K T W A I N
Illustrations by John Grorth
The War Prayer is a small yet powerful book that needs to be read by everyone - every child,
every man and woman, and most specifically, every world leader. Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War, it speaks simply yet clearly to the
lunacy of war. Reads the forward:
To Dan Beard, who dropped in to see him, Clemens read the "War Prayer," stating that he had read it to his
daughter Jean, and others, who had told him he must not print it, for it would be regarded as sacrilege.
"Still, you are going to publish it, are you not?"
Clemens, pacing up and down the room in his dressing-gown and slippers, shook his head.
"No," he said, "I have told the whole truth in that, and only dead men can tell the truth in this world.
It can be published after I am dead."
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From the Publisher:
Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off to war.
During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering. He tells the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the
destruction of the enemy... for the destruction of human life.
Originally rejected for publication in 1905 as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine," this antiwar parable remained unpublished until 1923, when Twain's literary executor collected it in the volume Europe and Elsewhere.
Handsomely illustrated by the artist and war correspondent Philip Groth, The War Prayer remains a relevant classic by an American icon.
About the Author
Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Often called America's greatest satirist, he is best known for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court. Born in 1835, Twain died in 1910.
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