"The Secret History of Eddypus, the World Empire"

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Title"The Secret History of Eddypus, the World Empire"
Year for Search1901
Authors[Clemens], [Samuel Langhorne](1835-1910)
Secondary AuthorsTuckey, John S.
Tertiary AuthorsTwain, Mark [pseud.]
Secondary TitleMark Twain's Fables of Man
Pagination318-82
Date Published1972 [written in 1901-02]
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Place PublishedBerkeley
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Satire on Christian Science written in 1901-1902. The author projects the domination of the United States by Christian Science at various places in his Christian Science: With Notes Containing Corrections to Date. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Rpt. without the subtitle Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993. U.K. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. A critical ed. in What Is Man? Ed. Paul Bender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 215-397, 553-77, 651-705.
Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Science Fiction of Mark Twain. Ed. David Ketterer (Hartford, CT: Archon Books, 1984), 176-223; book rpt. as Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder. Ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 176-223.
Pseudonym

Mark Twain [pseud.]
Author Note

(1835-1910)
Full Text

[1901-02 written in] [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne] (1835-1910). “The Secret History of Eddypus, the World Empire.” By Mark Twain [pseud.]. In Mark Twain’s Fables of Man. Ed. John S. Tuckey (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), 318-82 with “Eddypus Fragment” (384-85) and “Textual Apparatus” (648-95). Rpt. in The Science Fiction of Mark Twain. Ed. David Ketterer (Hartford, CT: Archon Books, 1984), 176-223; book rpt. as Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder. Ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 176-223.

Satire on Christian Science written in 1901-1902. The author projects the domination of the United States by Christian Science at various places in his Christian Science: With Notes Containing Corrections to Date. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Rpt. without the subtitle Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993. U.K. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. A critical ed. is in What Is Man? The Works of Mark Twain. Volume 19. Ed. Paul Baender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 215-397 with “Explanatory Notes” (553-77) and “Commentary” (651-705).