No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

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No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger Summary

Mark Twain's posthumously published story "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger"a bizarre tale of supernatural and dreamlike events that take place at the dawn of the age of modern printing in Europeis the last major work of fiction by one of the greatest American authors of the nineteenth century.

"No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" is narrated by August Feldner, a sixteen-year-old printer's apprentice living in a remote Austrian village in the late fifteenth century...

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