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Mark Twain and the "Gesta Romanorum"
Woodbridge, Homer E. | March 22, 1919 issue

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The posthumous publication of Mark Twain's remarkable satiric romance, "The Mysterious Stranger," aroused a good deal of curiosity as to the purpose and origin of a book so different in quality from most of its author's writings. Thomas Paine's admirable biography of Mark Twain did not do very much by way of satisfying this curiosity; it merely mentioned the book, rather slightingly, as an unfinished and very uneven piece of work, existing in three versions. The recently published letters, however, contain two or three references to the story, including one of great importance.

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TWAIN, Mark, 1835-1910; MYSTERIOUS Stranger, The (Book); BIOGRAPHY; LITERATURE; LIFE history; LETTERS
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