The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain - Books - Penguin Publishing Group - 9780451532206 - October 2, 2012
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Reprint edition

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Reprint edition

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
The Stolen White Elephant
Luck
The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Five Boons of Life
Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
The Mysterious Stranger

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories unites nine of master American humorist Mark Twain?s most accomplished works. From tall tales of con men?s tricks, such as the classic that brought him instant fame, ?The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,? to a man with no money (other than a £1,000,000 banknote that no one can cash), to an exposé of greed and hypocrisy in perhaps his greatest short story, ?The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,? Twain showcases his notorious humor?skewering policemen, clergymen, politicians, bankers, and others?and displays his changing attitude toward human nature. The finale is the novella The Mysterious Stranger, a rarity for Mark Twain in which he turns his sardonic, freewheeling wit on eternal evil in a distant time and place?and conjures a memorable, tormenting conclusion.


272 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 2, 2012
ISBN13 9780451532206
Publishers Penguin Publishing Group
Pages 272
Dimensions 169 × 107 × 22 mm   ·   158 g
Language English  
Contributor Howard Mittelmark
Contributor Jeffrey Nichols

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