The Mysterious Stranger

Number 44 (Satan) says this to August after he tells him he is leaving him. August, who is unhappy at the news of Number 44's departure, says to him that surely they will meet in the afterlife....

A more appropriate parallel than Satan in Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger and Barbara Undershaft in George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara would be Satan and Andrew Undershaft, patriarch of the...

Twain actually wrote multiple versions, each unfinished, but all included Satan as a character. One version, The Chronicle of Young Satan, is about the nephew of Satan who lives in an Austrian...

The subject quotation is taken from The Mysterious Stranger, an unfinished novella by Mark Twain. Although Twain penned several different versions of the tale, it is clear that his intention for...

Mark Twain's use of dreams in the story "The Mysterious Stranger" is complex and at times delves into somewhat tricky philosophical territory. The story, on its very entertaining surface, is about...

There is a lengthy summary of Twain's work at eNotes. Although it is not broken down chapter-by-chapter, you should be able to get a good idea of all the important events throughout. The link to...

All of Mark Twain’s classic works had already been published by the time The Mysterious Stranger was posthumously published in 1916. In fact, The Mysterious Stranger is generally considered to be...