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Title: The War Prayer
Author: Mark Twain
Narrator: Mike Vendetti
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-01-15
Publisher: Spoken Realms
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Classics, American Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti narrates "The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, a scathing indictment of war and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war.
The structure of the work is simple: An unnamed country goes to war, and patriotic citizens attend a church service for soldiers who have been called up. The people call upon their God to grant them victory and protect their troops. Suddenly an "aged stranger" appears and announces that he is God's messenger. He explains to them that he is there to speak aloud the second part of their prayer for victory, the part they have implicitly wished for but have not spoken aloud themselves: the prayer for the suffering and destruction of their enemies. What follows is a grisly depiction of hardships inflicted on war-torn nations by their conquerors. The story ends with the man being ignored.
