The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance

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Harper & Bros., 1916 - 150 páginas

"I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it."

-Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916)


The Mysterious Stranger (1916) is the third version of a story which Mark Twain worked on during his later life, but which was published posthumously by Albert Paine, Twain's biographer.


This jacketed hardcover replica of the original edition of The Mysterious Stranger, with color illustrations by well-known American illustrator N. C. Wyeth, offers a mysterious tale about the visit of a teenage boy named Satan to a medieval Austrian village, Eseldorf. Satan claims to be an angel and nephew of the fallen angel with the same name. When he meets three local boys, he tells them about the future, and he transports them around the world showing examples of religious radicalism.

 

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Palavras e frases frequentes

afraid angel answer ashamed astrologer Austria awful beautiful began begged boys broke brought career castle coin confess CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG creature crowd crying dream ducats eleven hundred Eseldorf eyes face Father Adolf Father Peter feeling fell Fischer foolish friends GILDED AGE glad Golden Stag groschen halberdiers hands happened happy heard heart heaven human race INNOCENTS ABROAD JOAN OF ARC juggler kind knew laugh live looked Marget MARK TWAIN mind minutes Moral Sense mother N. C. Wyeth never night Nikolaus noticed old Ursula Painting by N. C. pity poor priest Satan seen shrieking Solomon Isaacs sorry speak spirit stood stopped strange stranger talk tell thing thought told TOM SAWYER ABROAD took TRAMP ABROAD Traum tree trouble true turned uncle village walked wanted Wilhelm Meidling wine witchcraft witches wonderful words

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Página 141 - well as I could; but privately I did not think much of his processes—at that time. Satan was accustomed to say that our race lived a life of continuous and uninterrupted self-deception. It duped^ itself from cradle to grave with shams and delusions which it mistook for realities, and this made its entire life a‎
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Página 53 - You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it," and he went on talking like that. "It is like your paltry race—always lying, always claiming, virtues which it hasn't got, always denying them to the higher animals, which alone possess them. No brute ever does a cruel thing—‎
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Página 108 - It is as Satan said, we do not know good fortune from bad, and are always mistaking the one for the other. Many a time since then I have heard people pray to God to spare the life of sick persons, but I have never done it.‎
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Página 47 - matter, it was all the more certain to be able to keep its contract and furnish a daily good living for the family, for in matters of finance even the piousest of our peasants would have more confidence in an arrangement with the Devil than with an‎
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Página 104 - give him this one, from his mother." The first thing we noticed when we entered Nikolaus's room was the time—a quarter to 10. Could that be correct? Only such a few minutes to live! I felt a contraction at my heart. Nikolaus jumped up and gave us a glad welcome.‎
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Página 108 - here is His answer!" Why, He had saved it from harm—but she did not know. She wiped the tears from her eyes and cheeks, and stood awhile gazing down at the child and caressing its face and its hair with her hand; then she spoke again in that bitter tone: "But in His hard heart is no compassion.‎
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Página 122 - Yes, you will be there some day," but Satan seemed to be thinking about something else, and said nothing. This made me feel ghastly, for I knew he had heard; nothing, spoken or unspoken, ever escaped him. Poor Seppi looked distressed, and did not finish‎
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Acerca do autor (1916)

MARK TWAIN (1835-1910), pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer who became one of America's greatest and most popular writers. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, the state which influenced much of his writing. Twain acquired fame for his travel stories such as Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his boyhood adventure novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloThe Mysterious Stranger: A Romance
AutorMark Twain
Ilustrado porNewell Convers Wyeth
EditoraHarper & Bros., 1916
Original deUniversidade de Harvard
Digitalizado14 Set 2005
ISBN1646793854, 9781646793853
Número de páginas150 páginas
  
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