The Mysterious Stranger and Other Tales (Signet Classics)
by Mark Twain, Jenny Sanchez, and Edmund Reiss
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[The title short story]... wrestles with questions of God and evil. It tells of a callous angel who drops in on a village and wreaks havoc. The angel makes tiny clay people come alive and then, for amusement, destroys them with a storm, a fire and an earthquake..." - Nicholas D. Kristof
Contains:
The mysterious stranger
A horse's tale
Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven
A fable
My platonic sweetheart
Hunting the deceitful turkey
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm.
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American Humorous stories, Fiction, Quotations, Social life and customs, United States in fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), United states, social life and customs, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Children's fictionPeople
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The mysterious stranger and other stories
1992, Dover Publications
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Tales (Signet Classics)
February 1, 1962, Signet Classics
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"IN compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result."
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