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The Mysterious Stranger

Author
Mark Twain
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
104 pages
ISBN
9781909438705
Published
12 August 2022
Imprint
Sovereign
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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. Twain's unfinished philosophical tale of innocence meeting cosmic indifference. The stranger's gift is a harder truth than the village can bear.

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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