The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Twain, Mark
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories is a compilation of Mark Twain's nine accomplished works. It included his tales of tricksters such as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" to the tale of a town that gets corrupted as a result of a man's promise to avenge the town - The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. Twain portrays humour and wit through the characters of policemen, bankers, politicians, clergymen and others. The final one is the novella The Mysterious Stranger which is expresses his ways of exposing the eternal evil from a distant place and time through wit and…mehr

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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories is a compilation of Mark Twain's nine accomplished works. It included his tales of tricksters such as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" to the tale of a town that gets corrupted as a result of a man's promise to avenge the town - The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. Twain portrays humour and wit through the characters of policemen, bankers, politicians, clergymen and others. The final one is the novella The Mysterious Stranger which is expresses his ways of exposing the eternal evil from a distant place and time through wit and fictionalization. However, all his tales try to show the evils in the society and he wraps it well in the drape of humour and satire.
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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.