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Stormfield was the mansion built in Redding, Connecticut for author Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain, who lived there from 1908 until his death in 1910. He derived the property's name from the short story " Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven ".
The iconic film of Mark Twain walking in front of Stormfield, his house in Redding Connecticut, where he would later die.
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Feb 14, 2013 · Why, Stormfield, a man like you, that had been active and stirring all his life, would go mad in six months in a heaven where he hadn’t anything to do. Heaven is the very last place to come to rest in,—and don’t you be afraid to bet on that!”
Sep 1, 1997 · This work is an imaginative exploration of the afterlife, presented as a reflective journey of its protagonist, Captain Eli Stormfield, who navigates his way through the peculiarities of Heaven after his death.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- English
- Transcribed by David Price
Project Gutenberg's Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, by Mark Twain This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVEN. By Mark Twain. CHAPTER I. Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. LIKE a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them!
The story follows Captain Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven, his accidental misplacement, his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp, and the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and Moses, whom, according to Twain, become as distant to most people in heaven as living celebrities ...
