Letters from the Earth is one of Mark Twain's postumously published works. He probably did not intended to publish the piece because of it controversial and iconoclastic views on religion, especially Christianity. Letters from the Earth is a series of letters written by the archangel Satan to another archangel, Gabriel, about his observation of the curious proceedings of earth.
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- "The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone."
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