The book consists of a series of short stories, many of which deal with God and Christianity. Another reason for Clara's approval was that she felt that the Communist's claim that her father's views were suppressed in America was incorrect. But she changed her mind in 1962, feeling that "Mark Twain belonged to the world" and that public opinion had become more tolerant. She felt that probably because of its controversial and iconoclastic views on religion, that it presented a "distorted" view of her father. Initially, his sole heir, daughter, Clara Clemens, objected to its publication in March 1939. It was written during a difficult time in Twain's life he was deep in debt and had lost his wife and two of his three daughters. One of Mark Twain's posthumously published works, most of it written shortly before his death.
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