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The mysterious stranger

and other stories

  • 4.0 (2 ratings) ·
  • 10 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

[The title short story]... wrestles with questions of God and evil. It tells of a callous angel who drops in on a village and wreaks havoc. The angel makes tiny clay people come alive and then, for amusement, destroys them with a storm, a fire and an earthquake..." - Nicholas D. Kristof

Contains:

The mysterious stranger
A horse's tale
Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven
A fable
My platonic sweetheart
Hunting the deceitful turkey
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm.

Publish Date
Pages
253

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
2006-08-19, Project Gutenberg
in English
Cover of: The mysterious stranger and other stories
The mysterious stranger and other stories
1992, Dover Publications
in English
Cover of: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Tales (Signet Classics)
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Tales (Signet Classics)
February 1, 1962, Signet Classics
in English
Cover of: The mysterious stranger
Cover of: The mysterious stranger, and other stories
The mysterious stranger, and other stories
1950, Harper & Brothers
in English
Cover of: The mysterious stranger, and other stories
The mysterious stranger, and other stories
1923, Gabriel Wells
in English - Definitive ed.
Cover of: The mysterious stranger
The mysterious stranger
1922, Harper & Brothers
in English
Cover of: The mysterious stranger [and other stories] by Mark Twain [pseud.]
Cover of: The Mysterious Stranger
The Mysterious Stranger
1922, Harper and Brothers
in English
Cover of: The mysterious stranger and other stories
The mysterious stranger and other stories
1922, Harper & Bros.
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County --
The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut --
The stolen white elephant --
Luck --
The 1,000,000 (pound) bank-note --
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg --
The five boons of life --
Was it Heaven? Or Hell? --
The mysterious stranger.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
Signet Classic -- CP389

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813
Library of Congress
PZ3.C59 My 12

The Physical Object

Pagination
253 p.
Number of pages
253

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24214846M
Internet Archive
mysteriousstrang00twai

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