Download or read book Mark Twain s Tales of Mystery written by Mark Twain and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes in America? Mark Twain a character in his own stories? Can it be true? Mark Twain breaks character with a collection of short mystery stories.
Download or read book No 44 The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.
Download or read book Murder A Mystery And A Marriage A Story written by Mark Twain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the efforts of John Gray to marry off his daughter Mary to the heir of Deer Lick, Missouri's, wealthiest family, until the appearance of a stranger not only derails Gray's plans but also leads to murder.
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an excellent mystery book for individuals who are going to stimulate their brain.
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes four memorable selections spanning the career of famed American humorist: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The £1,000,000 Bank Note," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and "The Mysterious Stranger."
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes written by Mark Twain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Double Barreled Detective Story by Mark Twain features Sherlock Holmes in the American west. Twain uses Sherlock Holmes to brilliantly parody the entire mystery genre. Holmes slavishly employs the scientific method to a ridiculous degree and to a widely incorrect conclusion while attempting to solve a crime. Holmes nephew, Fetlock Jones, provides us with Twain's opinion of Holmes: "Anybody that knows him the way I do knows he can't detect a crime except where he plans it all out beforehand and arranges the clues and hires some fellow to commit it according to instructions." Fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Mark Twain will be delighted by this wonderful book.
Download or read book A Double Barrelled Detective Story written by Mark Twain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1902 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain is at his irreverent best with this hilarious parody of the 19th-century mystery - two seemingly unrelated narratives are spliced together, the author interjects himself as a character, and Twain even provides literary criticism of himself midway in the text. A Double-Barreled Detective Story is a delightful spoof of the mystery genre, then in its infancy, introducing the reader to Sherlock Holmes, as he has never been seen before or since. Far from his usual elegant London haunts, the great detective is caught up in a melodramatic murder mystery of love, betrayal, and vengeance in a rough California mining town - and dealing with characters named Ferguson, Wells-Fargo, Ham Sandwich, and Fetlock Jones. -- Publisher.
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories unites nine of master American humorist Mark Twain's most accomplished works. From tall tales of con men's tricks, such as the classic that brought him instant fame, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," to a man with no money (other than a �1,000,000 banknote that no one can cash), to an expos� of greed and hypocrisy in perhaps his greatest short story, "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," Twain showcases his notorious humor-skewering policemen, clergymen, politicians, bankers, and others-and displays his changing attitude toward human nature. The finale is the novella The Mysterious Stranger, a rarity for Mark Twain in which he turns his sardonic, freewheeling wit on eternal evil in a distant time and place-and conjures a memorable, tormenting conclusion.
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain pseud written by Mark Twain and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Double Barrelled Detective Story written by Mark Twain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain was one of the greatest writers in American history. Many consider Twain to be the father of American literature as his timeless novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are still among the most widely read books today. Twain's writing is well known for both its humor and its social criticism. A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novella that satirized the mystery novel genre. The story is noted for featuring Sherlock Holmes in the American west.
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Stranger is the novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it intermittently from 1897 through 1908. Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each involves a supernatural character called "Satan" or "No. 44". All the versions remained unfinished (with the debatable exception of the last one, No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger).
Download or read book Mark Twain s Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1969-04-01 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six, years after Mark Twain's death, Albert Bigelow Paine, the author's literary executor, brought out a bowdlerized edition of The Mysterious Stranger, silently cut and cobbled from three unfinished manuscripts. This volume presents those manuscripts for the first time, exactly as mark Twain wrote them. 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 The Mysterious Stranger. 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. Paine's edition of the book was based, for the most part, on the earliest of the three versions, written during the time of Mark Twain's supposed creative paralysis. He and Duneka suppressed a quarter of the text of this manuscript and grafted onto it the last chapter of the latest version. Mark Twain began the first manuscript, "The Chronicle of Young Satan," in 1897; late in 1898, he tried to recast the story in a Hannibal setting, then returned to his first version, only to abandon it permanently in 1900. Between 1902 and 1908, he worked on the third and longest version, the only one the author called "The Mysterious Stranger." The publication of these texts therefore offers an opportunity to observe Mark Twain's sustained literary struggle with a central theme and to reevaluate the tantalizing question of the author's late work.
Download or read book Double Barreled Detective Story written by Mark Twain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Double Barreled Detective Story by Mark Twain A Double Barreled Detective Story is the short story or novelette by the famous American author Mark Twain. Published in 1902, the story is about Sherlock Holmes as he travels through the American West. It is Twains attempt at a mystery novel with his signature satirical whit. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book A Double Barreled Detective Story written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Double Barreled Detective Story is the short story or novelette by the famous American author Mark Twain. Published in 1902, the story is about Sherlock Holmes as he travels through the American West. It is Twains attempt at a mystery novel with his signature satirical whit. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories By Mark Twain The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's "dark" period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. At the time this work was written, Twain had suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses. In this antireligious tale, he denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an afterlife, and even reality itself. As the Stranger in the story asserts, "nothing exists; all is a dream." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Mark Twain s The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories" was written in 1898 and never finished. The editors of Twain's "Collected Works" completed the story prior to publication. At what point in this work Twain left off and where the editor's began is not made clear in the print copy used as the basis of this eBook.
