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Work InformationThe War Prayer by Mark Twain (1905)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  BooksbyStarlight | Oct 25, 2022 |   It continues to amaze me, the wonders one can find sitting on a library shelf if you just take a moment to look. p.s., Reading this book reminded me of a favorite Peanuts strip, reprinted here: https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2016/10/23 (  ) villemezbrown | Sep 15, 2018 | ) Narshkite | Mar 20, 2016 |  ) Sandydog1 | Aug 10, 2013 | help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells A brief, bitter protest against unjust war. Mark Twain wrote it when his country was engaged in suppressing the Philippines — an ugly episode you won’t find in school textbooks. It was not published during his lifetime. The book has had an instructive history. The author’s estate renewed the copyright during the Korean War. The grisly line drawings by John Groth date from 1968, the height of the Vietnam War. This particular edition came out in 1984 as the country flirted with war in Central America. 1  Muscogulus | Mar 1, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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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Originally rejected for publication in 1905 as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine," this antiwar parable remained unpublished until 1923, when Twain's literary executor collected it in the volume Europe and Elsewhere.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. No library descriptions found. |
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Wikipedia in English
"Ponder this― keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon your neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain on your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse on some neighbor's crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it."
―The War Prayer (