The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings Book

An entertaining and thought-provoking collection. a window into Twains thoughts and an example of his far-reaching imagination. My favorites are "Little Bessie", about a little girl who asks difficult questions about God, etc, "Thoughts on God", which explores the question of the common housefly, "3,000 Years Among the Microbes", about a man who is transformed into a microbe inside a human body and finds microbe civilization to be strikingly similar to human civilization (this one is especially interesting, an elaborate metaphor of the microcosm/macrocosm and the role of the human in the greater universe, the souls of 'lower animals', etc.), and "The Yellow Scourge", a lovely fable about butterflies and bees (or is it angels and humans?) There are also political writings, and ship-voyages on treacherous seas and across a drop of water. Great bed-time reading.