The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

by Mark Twain

Overview

This antiquarian volume contains the last novel attempted by Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger". Twain worked on this novel sporadically from 1897 to 1908. He wrote numerous versions of the story, each incomplete and featuring a character called ‘’Satan’’ or ‘’No. 44’’. "The Mysterious Stranger" constitutes a serious social commentary concerning the ideas of morality and the ‘’damned human race’’, and it is highly recommended for those with an interest in such fiction. It is a veritable must-have for fans and collectors of Twain’s fantastic work and would make for a great addition to any personal library. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pseudonym, Mark Twain, was a seminal American writer and humourist. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473393745
Publisher:	Read Books Ltd.
Publication date:	04/15/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	126
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut, in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits, he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve, when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing, but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental—and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”

Jeffrey L. Nichols has been Executive Director of the Mark Twain House & Museum since 2007. He joined the museum in 2001 after having served as Director of Education and Visitor Services for the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Mr. Nichols serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Milford Historical Society in Milford, Connecticut, and the Board of Directors of the New Haven Museum. He has served as a board member and Speakers Chair for the Connecticut League of History Organizations. Mr. Nichols is a graduate of the Bank Street College of Education in New York City, where he earned an M.S. degree in Museum Education. He received a B.A. in History and Education from Southern Connecticut State University, and an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven.

Howard Mittelmark is a writer, editor and book critic living in New York. He is co-author of How Not to Write a Novel.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut

Table of Contents

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
"The £1,000,000 Bank-Note"
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Mysterious Stranger