Letters from the Earth

Published posthumously, these essays were written when Twain was in debt and had lost his wife and one of his daughters. The book consists of a series of short stories, many of which deal with God and Christianity. Twain penned a series of letters from the point-of-view of a dejected angel on Earth. The title story consists of letters written by the archangel Satan to archangels Gabriel and Michael.--From publisher.