The Mysterious Stranger The Mysterious Stranger

The Mysterious Stranger

    • 4.4 • 196 Ratings

Publisher Description

Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he became famous for, but when I read it back in Catholic high school, it left a deep impression. It concerns the deeply religious residents of a small village in Austria during the late sixteenth century, and what happened to several of them when a strange man began to visit their insulated homeland. There's little of Twain's humor here; this is a horror story, a parable. . . and a warning.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1911
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
167
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
106.6
KB

Customer Reviews

Hudoduuddm ,

Don’t be scared

If you give this a low rating because he says there is no god. u lame. he is correct

Khaleel O. ,

Average with Strange Language

The language in this book is frustrating. Added to that the story is a bit loony and preachy. There are a few gems but it might be better to search for them elsewhere.

Phoenix1972 ,

The mysterious stranger

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was very thought provoking. I asked my husband to read it, just so I'd have someone to discuss it with.
It was disturbing at times, due to the foresight of the author. It actually gave me goosebumps a few times, because of its spot on depiction of the world and it's inhabitants of today.
I would not recommend reading this if you are tired, or looking for book to read in bed before sleeping. First of all, if you are tired, you will find yourself rereading a lot of paragraphs, and turning back to previous pages, to keep abreast of goings on. At least I did. And secondly, reading this book can cause some unusual dreams that can wake you in the middle of the night. Not necessarily nightmares, but uncomfortable feelings, none the less.
But that just comes from a book that gets inside your head, and any book that does that is a good book indeed.
This is also the first book I've read where I underlined certain parts. I did it so that I could go back to those parts later when they crept into my head and caused more questions or possible answers. It's that deep.
Read it and come up with your own questions and answers.

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