Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A Truly Great Story

This is a side of Twain unread by those who think Huckleberry Finn and Mark Sawyer are children's books. The satire is far from humorous; the condemnation of Man is damning and totally accurate. The picture of ignorant, brutal, and short lives captures the religiosity of the Middle Ages (and of much of the present). If only for its treatment of the "moral sense," this story is worth re-reading. Obviously, the human idiocy Twain describes still exists.Obviously, we still operate in the darkness Twain portrays. Obviously, if angels existed, they would be more like the character in this story than in our common picture of them.Should be required reading for every student of religion or good writing, especially for those who ponder the question of why bad things happen to good people.Note that in my version, there are two other short stories that follow this one. They are somewhat inconsequential and neither add or detract from the value of this edition.