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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain is a collection of short stories exploring themes of morality, human nature, and the supernatural. The title story features a mysterious figure who appears in a small village, challenging the beliefs and values of the people he encounters. The collection delves into Twain's characteristic wit and satire, questioning the concepts of good and evil, as well as the complexities of life. The stories reflect his reflections on society, religion, and the human condition - Summary by Beauty_23

The Mysterious Stranger-A Romance- is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race". (Wikipedia and John Greenman)

Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Satan's cousin and they experience many things during this time. The story is narrated by one of the boys many years later. Mark Twain ends the story expressing the idea that will blow you away. Ideas that can be traced back thousands of years in many religions. What is existence really ... to quote that well known song by Eliphalet Oram Lyte ... Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream, Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream .... so dream on. - Summary by Patrick79

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain is a philosophical novel set in 16th-century Austria. It follows three boys who encounter a supernatural being named Satan, a nephew of the biblical Satan. Satan possesses immense power and grants the boys wishes while revealing the cruelty, hypocrisy, and absurdity of human nature. As the story unfolds, he challenges their beliefs, demonstrating life's meaninglessness and moral relativism. In the end, he reveals that reality itself is an illusion, leaving the narrator to question existence and the nature of truth. Summary by Dream AudioBooks

Venture back in time to July 1812, to Windsor, Nova Scotia. A charming, well-dressed young man emerges, his true intentions shrouded in mystery. Sheriff Bates recounts this unique tale from our criminal past, a narrative so compelling it demands your attention. Dive into this unique historical account, adapted from the original Preface.

Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he became famous for, but when I read it back in Catholic high school, it left a deep impression. It concerns the deeply religious residents of a small village in Austria during the late sixteenth century, and what happened to several of them when a strange man began to visit their insulated homeland. There's little of Twain's humor here; this is a horror story, a parable. . . and a warning.