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The Mysterious Stranger

Mark Twain

Book Overview: 

Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Satan's cousin and they experience many things during this time. The story is narrated by one of the boys many years later. Mark Twain ends the story expressing the idea that will blow you away. Ideas that can be traced back thousands of years in many religions. What is existence really ... to quote that well known song by Eliphalet Oram Lyte ... Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream, Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream .... so dream on.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Any one would have been obliged to like it. It was lovely to look at, it was so shapely and fine, and so cunningly perfect in all its particulars, even to the little flags waving from the turrets. Satan said we must put the artillery in place now, and station the halberdiers and display the cavalry. Our men and horses were a spectacle to see, they were so little like what they were intended for; for, of course, we had no art in making such things. Satan said they were the worst he had seen; and when he touched them and made them alive, it was just ridiculous the way they acted, on account of their legs not being of uniform21 lengths. They reeled and sprawled around as if they were drunk, and endangered everybody’s lives around them, and finally fell over and lay helpless and kicking. It made us all laugh, though it was a shameful thing to see. The guns were charged with dirt, to fire a salute, but they were so crooked and so badly made that they all burst when they . . . Read More

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بیگانه‌ای در دهکده اثری است، که پس از مرگ نویسنده به چاپ رسیده که در آن تواین طنز طبیعی و دوستانه خود را مانند سنگ سخت میکند تا رمانی تلخ بنویسد، با طنزی بدبینانه و سرخورده، که در آن نژاد بشر و کلیساها را به شدت زیر سوال می‌برد. آنها را فریب دهندگان مردم ساده می‌دانست.

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