No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-02-05

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0520270002

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Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.

The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2005-08-31

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0520246950

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Here back in a paperback edition are the complete set of manuscripts left by Twain, which after his death would be assembled into a bowdlerized version and published as The Mysterious Stranger.

The Mysterious Stranger
The Mysterious Stranger

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03-21

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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The title story is Twain's darkly fantastic take on religion, reality, and the meaning of life. It takes place in 1590 in the remote Austrian village of Eseldorf, where few young boys greet an unexpected visitor: an angel named Satan. Among the six other stories included are "A Fable," "Hunting the Deceiful Turkey," and "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm."

Mysterious Stranger
Mysterious Stranger

Author: David Blaine

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780330413312

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David Blaine, downtown hipster and extraordinary illusionist, offers an exploration of the mysteries and history of the ancient art of magic. Mysterious Stranger brings Blaine's magic directly to his audience. In the book you'll find: mind-bending tricks you can learn to do yourself; interactive magic effects; mind-reading and psychic techniques; David Blaine's unique perspective on the art of magic; a copiously illustrated history of the art; and autobiographical background and an insight into David's private world.

The Mysterious Stranger
The Mysterious Stranger

Author: Dan Jolley

Publisher: Boom Town

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781608865239

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Woody, Buzz and the gang encounter a mysterious egg-shaped toy, crash Andy's science fair, meet the new family dog and keep Sarge from revealing their secrets.

Orange World and Other Stories
Orange World and Other Stories

Author: Karen Russell

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0525656146

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From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter

Author: Alexis Hall

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 044000134X

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In this charming, witty, and weird fantasy novel, Alexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a new twist on those renowned characters. Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Ms. Shaharazad Haas, a consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation. When Ms. Haas is enlisted to solve a case of blackmail against one of her former lovers, Miss Eirene Viola, Captain Wyndham is drawn into a mystery that leads him from the salons of the literary set to the drowned back-alleys of Ven and even to a prison cell in lost Carcosa. Along the way he is beset by criminals, menaced by pirates, molested by vampires, almost devoured by mad gods, and called upon to punch a shark. But the further the companions go in pursuit of the elusive blackmailer, the more impossible the case appears. Then again, in Khelathra-Ven reality is flexible, and the impossible is Ms. Haas' stock-in-trade.

Number 44 the Mysterious Stranger
Number 44 the Mysterious Stranger

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781512109337

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"No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" is narrated by August Feldner, a sixteen-year-old printer's apprentice living in a remote Austrian village in the late fifteenth century. The print shop in which he works is located in a run-down old castle, which houses over a dozen people, including the print master, his family, and the various men who work in the shop, as well as a magician. August relates the magical events that occur in the castle after the arrival of a strange boy who says his name is "Number 44, New Series 864,962." Twain's central themes in this story include dreams and the imagination, as well as ideas, knowledge, and thought.