To the Person Sitting in Darkness by Mark Twain

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/116061to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the Person Sitting in Darkness Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Richard Henzel Format: mp3 Length: 55 mins Release date: 03-26-19 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 6 ratings Genres: Satire Publisher's Summary: Mark Twain, incensed by increasing religious and political imperialism around the globe, characterizes a large nation's invasion and occupation of a smaller country as the "strange and over-showy onslaught of an elephant upon a nest of field mice, on the pretext that the mice had squeaked an insolence at him conduct which 'no self-respecting government could allow to pass unavenged' as Mr. Chamberlain said. Was that a good pretext in a small case when it had not been a good pretext in a large one?- for only recently Russia had affronted the elephant three times and survived...."

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