The Mysterious Stranger: And Other Stories

by Mark Twain

Overview

The Mysterious Stranger
And Other Stories
By Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race".

Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each is unfinished and involves a supernatural character called "Satan" or "No. 44".

Twain wrote the "St. Petersburg Fragment" in September 1897. It was set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, a name Twain often used for Hannibal, Missouri.

The first substantial version is entitled The Chronicle of Young Satan and relates the adventures of Satan, the sinless nephew of the biblical Satan, in Eseldorf, an Austrian village in the year 1702. Twain wrote this version between November 1897 and September 1900. "Eseldorf" is German for "assville" or "donkeytown".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781354530665
Publisher:	Palala Press
Publication date:	04/28/2016
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire. Twain's writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression.

Acclaimed audiobook narrator Jonathan Kent's many titles include The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain, and White Fang by Jack London.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut