On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

Mark Twain with Brian Troxell (Narrator)

16 minutes first pub 1882 (editions) user-added

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Mark Twain composed this short essay on the "art of lying" in 1885 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's "most fai...

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