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The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

About 671 pages (201,151 words) in 23 products

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Project Gutenberg eBook
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The Mysterious Stranger eBook
37,016 words, approx. 123 pages
The complete online text of The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain.


Author Biography

Name: Mark Twain
Variant Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Birth Date: November 30, 1835
Death Date: April 21, 1910
Place of Birth: Florida, Missouri, United States
Place of Death: Redding, Connecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, humorist

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Biography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
18401 words, approx. 61.3 pages
An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...
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Biography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
17980 words, approx. 59.9 pages
Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...
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Biography of Mark Twain
12083 words, approx. 40.3 pages
In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Mysterious Stranger Information
1,486 words, approx. 5 pages
<i>The Mysterious Stranger</i> is an unfinished work written by the American author <b>Mark Twain</b> that was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until his death in 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his...


News and Journals
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AP News
Poe fan takes credit for grave legend
8/15/2007: 900 words, approx. 3 pages
The legend was almost too good to be true. For decades, a mysterious figure dressed in black, his features cloaked by a wide-brimmed hat and scarf, crept into a churchyard to lay three roses and a bottle of cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Gladys Carmen Bellamy
9,933 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Bellamy examines The Mysterious Stranger in the light of Twain's biography and writing notebooks.
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Critical Essay by Patricia M. Mandia
7,388 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Mandia discusses pessimistic themes in The Mysterious Stranger and "3,000 Years among the Microbes. "
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Critical Essay by Robert Keith Miller
7,184 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Miller suggests that The My sterious Stranger draws together concepts expressed in Twain's earlier work, but does not truly represent his own sentiments.
 


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The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

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