No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger

Mark Twain's fantastical last novel took him twelve years--and three long draftsto complete. Based on boyhood memories of the Mississippi River Valley and of the print shops of Hannibal, the story is set in medieval Austria at the dawn of the printing craft. It is a psychic adventure, full of phantasmagoric effects, in which a penniless printer's apprenticea youthful, mysterious stranger...