Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.

Six, years after Mark Twain's death, Albert Bigelow Paine, the author's literary executor, brought out a bowdlerized edition of The Mysterious Stranger, silentl

Here back in a paperback edition are the complete set of manuscripts left by Twain, which after his death would be assembled into a bowdlerized version and publ

Compares and contrasts the three "Mysterious Stranger" manuscripts by Mark Twain: "The Chronicle of Young Satan", "Schoolhouse Hill", and "No. 44, the Mysteriou

In this first book on No. 44 in thirty years, thirteen especially commissioned essays by some of today's most accomplished Twain scholars cover an array of topi