Devil's Race-Track

Mark Twain explores the darker side of life in these lesser-known later writings dealing with personal tragedies, nightmarish world events, and a doubtful cosmic order. He views his own situation as that of a ship trapped in a fearsome Bermuda Triangle-like region, the Devil''s Race-Track. He sees history as a treadmill of endlessly and monotonously repeated events. And he conceives of a universal...