Description: The Mysterious stranger by Mark Twain An unfinished novella that Mark Twain worked on periodically from roughly 1890 until his death in 1910. The body of the work is a serious social commentary addressing Twains ideas of the Moral Sense and the damned human race. Published posthumously in 1916 by Twains biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. Show Excerpt roubled, there was no occasion for us to be afraid of an angel, and he liked us, anyway. He went on chatting as simply and unaffectedly as ever; and while he talked he made a crowd of little men and women the size of your finger, and they went diligently to work and cleared and leveled off a space a couple of yards square in the grass and began to build a cunning little castle in it, the women mixing the mortar and carrying it up the scaffoldings in pails on their heads, just as our work-women have always done, and the men laying the courses of masonry--five hundred of these toy people swarming briskly about and working diligently and wiping the sweat off their faces as natural as life. In the absorbing interest of watching those five hundred little people make the castle grow step by step and course by course, and take shape and symmetry, that feeling and awe soon passed away and we were quite comfortable and at home again. We asked if we might make some people, and he said yes, and told Seppi to make some c FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Details ISBN1536806994 Author Mark Twain Pages 118 Language English Year 2016 ISBN-10 1536806994 ISBN-13 9781536806991 Format Paperback Publication Date 2016-07-30 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform DEWEY FIC Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:128511511;
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