The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
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The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain's fantastical last novelette, took him twelve years-and three long drafts-to complete. Based on boyhood memories of the Mississippi River Valley and of the print shops of Hannibal, the story is set in medieval Austria at the dawn of the printing craft. It is a psychic adventure, full of phantasmagoric effects, in which a penniless printer's apprentice-a youthful, mysterious stranger with the curious name 44-gradually reveals his otherworldly powers and the hidden possibilities of the mind. Ending on a startling note, this surprisingly existential tale reveals a darker side to the author's genius.The Mysterious Stranger is a rarity in the work of Twain-a story in which the author turns his sardonic, free-wheeling wit to the problem of Eternal Evil in a distant time and place. In the other stories presented here, Twain debunks his Gilded Age; he ransacks the backyards of daily life and fable to find his notorious, sometimes preposterous metaphors. He is as apt to deal with the great minds of the law hunting a wayward elephant as with a man who has a bank note no one can cash.In addition to The Mysterious Stranger, this volume includes the stories "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg," "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Story of the Bad Little Boy," "The Diary of Adam and Eve," "Edward Mills and George Benton," "The Joke That Made Ed's Fortune," and "A Fable."
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Twain, M., & Kent, J. (2009). The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories. Unabridged. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Twain, Mark and Jonathan, Kent. 2009. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Twain, Mark and Jonathan, Kent, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Twain, Mark, and Jonathan Kent. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories. Unabridged. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc, 2009.
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