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Deluxe ed. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1122 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 161 KB). |
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Title from eBook information screen. |
| Summary |
The Mysterious stranger is set in late 1500's Austria. Twain became bitter and anti-religious in his later years, and this book reflects that trend. Thru various characters in the story, Twain offers up his opinions about the reason for life, deity, life after death, religious hypocrisy, etc. In this, an angel, Satan, nephew of his infernal namesake, comes to a late 16th century Austrian mountain village and systematically exposes the murderous herd instincts, moral deceptions and shabby pretensions of the human condition. Everything -- war, religion, society, justice, family, human aspiration, childhood innocence -- is ground down with misanthropic, sub-Swiftian satire. |
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Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Fiction.
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Boys -- Austria -- 16th century -- Fiction.
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Supernatural -- Fiction.
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Austria -- 16th century -- Fiction.
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Literatura norte-americana.
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Conto.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
141213868X ODE (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader) |
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9781412138680 ODE (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader) |
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1412138698 ODE (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader) |
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9781412138697 ODE (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader) |
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