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The Mysterious Stranger

Mark Twain

First published October 1916
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series The Mysterious Stranger

Wikipedia refers to this as the Paine-Duneka text of 1916. It consists of a heavily edited version of Twain's manuscript "The Chronicle of Young Satan" with the ending of No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger tacked on. The edits to the texts were done by Albert Bigelow Paine who wrote with the assistance of Frederick Duneka new passages to bridge the two texts.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1916 Cover The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance Harper & Brothers Chapbook
1922 The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Harper & Brothers Collection
1923 Cover The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Harper & Brothers Collection
February 1962 The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Signet Classic / New American Library Collection |2
November 1981 Cover Der unheimliche Fremde Bastei Lübbe Collection 11
1982 Cover Mark Twain's Best Scholastic Book Services Collection 147
1984 Cover Der Prinz und der Bettelknabe / Der geheimnisvolle Fremde Aufbau Omnibus 278
September 1995 Cover The Mysterious Stranger Prometheus Books Chapbook
February 2001 Cover The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature North Atlantic Books/Tachyon Publications/Frog, Ltd. Anthology 619
February 2006 Cover The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Tantor Audio Collection |8
June 2008 The Mysterious Stranger Project Gutenberg Collection
October 2012 Cover The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Signet / New American Library Collection
August 2013 Cover The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature Tachyon Publications Anthology 585
October 2015 Cover The Devils & Demons Megapack Wildside Press Anthology
October 2016 Cover Lo straniero misterioso Mattioli 1885 Chapbook
October 2018 Cover The Speculative Fiction of Mark Twain Dover Publications Collection
October 2018 Cover The Speculative Fiction of Mark Twain Dover Publications Collection 175