Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.

The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is

Six, years after Mark Twain's death, Albert Bigelow Paine, the author's literary executor, brought out a bowdlerized edition of The Mysterious Stranger, silentl

Compares and contrasts the three "Mysterious Stranger" manuscripts by Mark Twain: "The Chronicle of Young Satan", "Schoolhouse Hill", and "No. 44, the Mysteriou

In this first book on No. 44 in thirty years, thirteen especially commissioned essays by some of today's most accomplished Twain scholars cover an array of topi