About this work of fiction
Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (Mark Twain Papers) by with an introduction by William M. Gibson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
<p>Six, years after Mark Twain's death, Albert Bigelow Paine, the author's literary executor, brought out a bowdlerized edition of <i>The Mysterious Stranger,</i> silently cut and cobbled from three unfinished manuscripts. This volume presents those manuscripts for the first time, exactly as mark Twain wrote them.<br> Paine's disingenuous account of the history of his edition has, until recently, misled critics into believing that Mark Twain's creative abilities deserted him for a time, only to be recovered in the composition of <i>The Mysterious Stranger</i>. By writing this tale, said Bernard DeVoto, Mark Twain "saved himself in the end, and came back from the edge of insanity, and found as much peace as any man may find in his last years, and brought his talent into fruition and made it whole again." Although most critics have praised the work as the finest fiction of Mark Twain's later years, Paine and his collaborator, Frederick A. Duneka, so changed many of the book's essentials that it does not fully or accurately reflect the author's mood and thought.<br> Paine's edition of the book was based, for the most part, on the earliest of the three versions, written during the time
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- with an introduction by William M. Gibson
- Publisher
- Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press
- Published
- 1969
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520014732
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Children'S, History, Juvenile