On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying Review
Once again, Mark Twin is the master of essays, this time about lying. It's done in an over the top fashion, making you realize that we're all liars on a daily basis, and we do it reflexively but that it's a dying art.
Twain argues that we don't lie for the right reasons, and we need to address that. The essay is a bit short but still poignant even today. Twain's at his best in this essay, and it's well worth the download - even better because it's free.
On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying Overview
On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay written by Mark Twain 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 faithful friend'. -- from Wikipedia
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Short but Funny - William -
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. - DWD - Indianapolis, IN
Twain says this is an essay written in 1885 for a 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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