Unity in "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" and Mark Twain's Debt to Christian Science.

<p>Since 1969 the traditional assessment of the final fifteen years of Mark Twain's career has undergone a reversal because of the availability of the original Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts. These manuscripts, for the first time, presented three distinct versions of Twain's mysterious stranger stories. Study of these texts has revealed that after Twain's death in 1910, his editor, Albert Bigelow Paine, without Twain's prior consent, combined the body of "The Chronicle of Young Satan," the earliest version of the three different texts, with the conclusion of "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger," the final version. The novel, published in 1916 by F.A. Duneka and called The Mysterious Stranger, confounded Twain experts for over half a century because "Chronicle," written between 1897 and 1900, and the conclusion of "No. 44," written in 1904, express dissimilar sentiments.</p>

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Year

1983

Author dc:creator

• Midyette, Jeb

• The Chronicle of Young Satan
• No. 44
• The Mysterious Stranger
• Twain
• Mark

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/6980

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.library.uab.edu:etd-collection-7972