The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain • BookLikes (ISBN:1421807769)

The Mysterious Stranger

by: Mark Twain (author)

Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9781421807768 (1421807769)

Publish date: July 1st 2005

Publisher: 1st World Library

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Humor, Literature, American, Classic Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Short Stories

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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it

6 years ago

http://antao.booklikes.com Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios 2.0 Youthful Frolicking: "The Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain

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(Original Review, 1981-04-17)“The Mysterious Stranger” by Mark Twain which presented a very bleak and troubling vision of humanity. It had some Huck Finn style youthful frolicking too but this was swamped by that sense that human history and the consequences of moral decision making are a horrible d...

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Reading Slothfully rated it

12 years ago

http://lgpiper.booklikes.com Reading Slothfully 4.0 The Mysterious Stranger

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I'm pretty sure I read this at the end of high school or perhaps early in college, but I only remembered a small part from the beginning. I had remembered liking it quite a bit and remembered that it had some kind of religious message. So I was happy to re-read it.Mark Twain is a most excellent writ...

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Bettie's Books rated it

14 years ago

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Re-reading online from Project Gutenberg the titular story as it is mentioned extensively in Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His EvilIt was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep;it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain soforever.

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