A later work by Twain (1909), this short has some of Twain's later trademark bitterness towards conventional religious notions; in this case, I can't help but see this newcomer's description of Heaven as a counterpoint to those celebratory afterlife fantasies, such as Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 The Gates Ajar and other religious and spiritualist fantasies. (For more of this, there's always Twain's attack on Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy, "The Secret History of Eddy-pus.")

Fine Twain, but probably not essential reading.