{"product_id":"christian-science-1907-the-aoxford-mark-twain","title":"Christian Science (1907) (The ^AOxford Mark Twain)- USED CLA","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristian Science begins, as Garry Wills notes in his introduction, with Twain's description of a man who \"falls off a cliff and finds his bones projecting from him like the arms of a hat rack. After a course of treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, he calls in a veterinarian and pays the Christian Scientist with an imaginary check for an imaginary cure.\" Although Twain recognized that everyone was born with \"the power which a man's imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick,\" he was deeply suspicious of the empire-building, power-mongering, delusions, and evasions of the founder of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy. Wills notes that \"Christian Science can be read at several levels, all rewarding--first, as a satire on Christian Science's wilder pretensions and its founder's deceptions; then, as an example of Twain's regard for language as the indicator of mental and moral conditions; and finally as part of a biographical descent into the nihilism of his last days. On all these counts the book gets us very close to the heart of American culture.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kicks Mix Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48098757476515,"sku":"9780195101553","price":4.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/6831\/6835\/files\/9780195101553.jpg?v=1788816336","url":"https:\/\/kicksmixbooks.store\/products\/christian-science-1907-the-aoxford-mark-twain","provider":"Kicks Mix Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}