Mark Twain's Political Fiction

This is the first collection of Mark Twain's political fiction. The collection compiles Twain's short stories that are concerned with political and moral questions. The stories are grouped into four thematic units. The first unit of stories concern Twain's thoughts on truth as presented through his evaluation of honesty and dishonesty. This unit contains two short stories: "Luck," and "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg." The second unit concerns Twain's thoughts on scientific, philosophic, and political utopianism. It presents Twain's thoughts on utopianism through five short stories: "A Dog's Tale," "The War Prayer," "Cannibalism in the Cars," "The Curious Republic of Gondor," and "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven." The third unit of stories concern Twain's thoughts on praise, blame, and honor.