The Mysterious Stranger and Other Late Writings

Satan in an Austrian Village, and Late Twain

Mark Twain

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486991202
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Four late works: the boy Satan who visits an Austrian village and shows three children what the human race looks like from outside, the essay arguing that Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare, Eve's diary, and the lecture on how to tell a story. Twain wrote most of this after the deaths of his daughter Susy and his wife, and The Mysterious Stranger itself was published only after his own death, assembled by his editors. Fifty-six plates, from Dürer and Munch to the Cranachs, carry the late Twain's darkening vision of the human face and the natural world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Chapter I
• Chapter II
• Chapter III
• Chapter IV
• Chapter V
• Chapter VI
• Chapter VII
• Chapter VIII
• Chapter IX
• Chapter X
• Chapter XI
• Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography
• Chapter I
• Chapter II
• Chapter III
• Facts
• Chapter IV—Conjectures
• Chapter V—“We May Assume”
• Chapter VI
• Chapter VII
• Chapter VIII—Shakespeare as a Lawyer
• Chapter IX
• Chapter X—The Rest of the Equipment
• Chapter XI
• Chapter XII—Irreverence
• Chapter XIII
• Eve’s Diary
• Extract from Adam’s Diary
• After the Fall
• Forty Years Later
• At Eve’s Grave
• How to Tell a Story and Others
• How to Tell a Story
• The Wounded Soldier.
• The Golden Arm.
• Mental Telegraphy Again
• The Invalid’s Story
• About the Author