"Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Taken from His Own Ms"

1907-08 [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne] (1835-1910). “Extracts from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven Taken from His Own Ms.” By Mark Twain [pseud.]. Harper’s Monthly Magazine (New York) 116.691 - 92 (December 1907 - January 1908): 41-49, 266-76. Rpt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909; and Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996. Rpt. as “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” In The Speculative Fiction of Mark Twain (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2018), 123-74. Editions with additional materials can be found in his Report from Paradise. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952, which includes “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (1-83), “Letter from the Recording Angel” (84-94), “Report from Paradise Introduction” by Dixon Wecter (ix-xxv), and drawings by Charles Locke; and Ray Browne, ed. Mark Twain’s Quarrel with Heaven: “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” and Other Sketches. New Haven, CT: College and University Press, 1970, which includes an “Introduction” by Browne (11-37), “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (39-110), which is based on the manuscript in the Twain papers at the University of California, Berkeley, “The Late Reverend Sam Jones’s Reception in Heaven” (111-16), with the note “Not published--forbidden by Mrs. Clemens.--S.L.C., “Mental Telegraphy” (117-19), and two brief appendices. This version rpt. as “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” in The Science Fiction of Mark Twain. Ed. David Ketterer (Hartford, CT: Archon Books, 1984), 14-58; book rpt. as Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder. Ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 14-58.

Satire on heaven as eutopia.