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Berkeley : University of California Press, [1982] c1969.
Description
This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud.
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English
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LibraryThing member rapotter
This is an extraordinary book, and kudos are due to the folks at the Bancroft Library who have rescued this work from posthumous prevaricators. It is a strange work, part Medieval (think Connecticut Yankee), part postmodern (think Zelig) -- a world in which doppelgangers and minstrels mix in
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strange and peculiar epiphany. There is nothing else like it -- one last shot over the bow. Show Less
LibraryThing member jhudsui
I had higher hopes for Mark Twain's Satanism than this but oh well. At least it moves on at a good clip, and at least in the early parts the atheism is carried forward with sardonic good humor. But there's nothing much here to surprise the modern reader, and when Twain tries to offer something up
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in the place of traditional institutions all he seems to have for us is cheap solipsism. Show Less