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The Mysterious Stranger

Author
Mark Twain
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
3 hours 47 minutes
ISBN
9781802560855
Published
9 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Mark Twain
  • The Mysterious Stranger
  • religion
  • biblical
  • organised religion
  • adventures
  • American novel
  • humour
  • satire
  • controversial

Description

In Eseldorf, boy Theodor meets a charming stranger who calls himself Satan and unravels faith, cruelty, and the comfort of belief with cool, devastating play. Spoken as when a mysterious stranger still asks whether life is mercy or only a dream.

Author

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), river pilot, Nevada journalist, and the writer who turned American talk into literature. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer gave boyhood its permanent stage; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn put a runaway child and a fugitive slave on the Mississippi and asked what conscience sounds like when the law is wrong. He lectured across America and Europe, lost fortunes, and kept writing.

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