The Mysterious Stranger
Autor Mark Twain Amy Sterling Casilen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2006
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ISBN-13: 9781598185843
ISBN-10: 1598185845
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Aegypan Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1598185845
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Aegypan Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so.
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In his last years Mark Twain had become a respected literary figure whose opinions were widely sought by the press. He had also suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses. The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's "dark" period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. In this antireligious tale, Twain denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an afterlife, and even reality itself. As the Stranger in the story asserts, "nothing exists; all is a dream".