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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 building was destroyed in a 1923 fire.
The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp (generated by his preconceptions of heaven); and the general obsession of souls with the celebrities of Heaven such as Adam, Moses, and Elijah, who acc...
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!”
Jan 7, 2008 · 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 ...
In June 1908, Twain moved to his new home, where he lived until his death on April 21, 1910. The house was called Stormfield because the proceeds from the writer’s book Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven helped finance it.
This is a copyrighted computer-generated audio performance of Project Gutenberg's public domain book, "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven", by Mark Twain. Please read the License before distributing this eBook. Free use and distribution is encouraged! It is available as a series of MP3 files, one file per chapter.
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Apr 21, 2015 · Watch a silent film of Mark Twain at his home in Redding, Connecticut, where he wrote Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Learn about the history and legacy of Stormfield, the Italian-style house that burned down in 1923.
