| On the Decay of the Art of Lying |  | Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Public Domain Books
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Rating:  2 reviews
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B000JQU81G
Publication Date: September 15, 2004
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Essay, for discussion, read at a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, and offered for the thirty-dollar prize. (Did not take the prize.)
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 Short but Funny July 16, 2010
William
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very short but quite funny examination of the sad state ot that most noble and necessary art: lying. This short essay is in the same vein as Eramus's In Praise of Folly, and just as satisfying.
 Not Twain's best work. May 28, 2009
DWD (Indianapolis, IN)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Twain says this is an essay written in 1885 for a $30 prize for the "Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford". Twain notes that he did not win a prize for this essay.
The essay focuses on the lost art of lying. Twain discusses different kinds of lies, situations in which people lie and why all lies are not bad.
The essay is sometimes funny but mostly sounds like an old stand up routine about good lies and bad lies.
The Kindle version is very short - only 86 locations.
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