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The Make-Believe Martyr: An Introduction to Literary Excellence in the Book of Mormon (edit title/settings)

by Lofte Payne (?) (edit contributors)

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Joseph Smith authored the book deserving recognition as America's earliest fictional masterpiece. Published in 1830, it arrived five years before Mark Twain's birth, and twenty years ahead of Melville or Hawthorne's best works. Yet that star attraction ... read more

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Joseph's telling of his first visit by an angel reveals little difference from a business meeting between two partners: He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do; and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people.

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