书名：The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories神秘的陌生人等故事集
作者：Mark Twain
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2012
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451532206
商品尺寸：10.5x2.0x 17.1cm
包装：简装
页数：256 （以实物为准）

马克·吐温是美国杰出的批判现实主义作家。他的作品以独特的幽默和讽刺手法，真实地描绘了十九世纪末、二十世纪初美国的社会生活，深刻地揭露了资本主义社会的种种弊端。他的创作在美国文学史上占有很高的地位，对世界文学也有很大的影响。The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories《神秘的陌生人等故事集》，共收录9篇大师级杰作，适合英语专业学生及对经典英语文学作品感兴趣的读者。
推荐理由：
1.马克·吐温是美国的幽默大师、小说家、作家，也是著名演说家，19世纪后期美国现实主义文学的杰出代表；
2.其作品以幽默、机智见长，并奠定了美国文学作品的简洁风格，被称为“现代美国文学之父”；
3.以独特的幽默和讽刺手法，真实地描绘了十九世纪末、二十世纪初美国的社会生活，深刻地揭露了资本主义社会的种种弊端；
4.此版本为Signet Classic版本，由杰弗里·尼克尔森撰写序言，及霍华德·马克尔县撰写编后记；
5.英文原版无删减，小巧轻便，阅读方便。
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Storiesunites nine of master American humorist Mark Twain s most accomplished works. From tall tales of con men’s tricks, such as the classic that brought him instant fame, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, to a man with no money (other than a￡1,000,000 banknote that no one can cash), to an exposé of greed and hypocrisy in perhaps his greatest short story, “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” Twain showcases his notorious humor—skewering policemen, clergymen, politicians, bankers, and others—and displays his changing attitude toward human nature. The finale is the novellaThe Mysterious Stranger, a rarity for Mark Twain in which he turns his sardonic, freewheeling wit on eternal evil in a distant time and place—and conjures a memorable, tormenting conclusion.
With a New Introduction by Jeffrey Nichols and an Afterword by Howard Mittelmark

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories《神秘的陌生人及故事集》收录了马克•吐温颇为成功的代表作，共9篇，篇篇经典。
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Storiesunites nine of master American humorist Mark Twain s most accomplished works,thatisThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut,The Stolen White Elephant,Luck,The 1,000,000 Bank-Note,The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,The Five Boons of Life,Was It Heaven? Or Hell?andThe Mysterious Stranger.

马克· 吐温（Mark Twain），美国著名作家和演说家，真实姓名是萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门（Samuel Langhorne Clemens）。“马克·吐温”是他的笔名，原是密西西比河水手使用的表示在航道上所测水的深度的术语。马克·吐温一生写了大量作品，题材涉及小说、剧本、散文、诗歌等各方面。从内容上说，他的作品批判了不合理现象或人性的丑恶之处，表达了这位当过排字工人和水手的作家强烈的正义感和对普通人民的关心；从风格上说，专家们和一般读者都认为，幽默和讽刺是他的写作特点。马克·吐温被美国的权威期刊《大西洋月刊》评为影响美国的100位人物第16名。
Mark Twain(1835-1910)was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut, in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits, he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve, when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing, but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”
Jeffrey L. Nicholshas been Executive Director of the Mark Twain House & Museum since 2007. He joined the museum in 2001 after having served as Director of Education and Visitor Services for the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Mr. Nichols serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Milford Historical Society in Milford, Connecticut, and the Board of Directors of the New Haven Museum. He has served as a board member and Speakers Chair for the Connecticut League of History Organizations. Mr. Nichols is a graduate of the Bank Street College of Education in New York City, where he earned an M.S. degree in Museum Education. He received a B.A. in History and Education from Southern Connecticut State University, and an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven.
Howard Mittelmarkis a writer, editor and book critic living in New York. He is coauthor ofHow Not to Write a Novel.

Introduction
THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY[1865]
THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT CARNIVAL OF CRIME IN CONNECTICUT[1876]
THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT[1882]
LUCK[1891]
THE 1,000,000 BANK-NOTE[1893]
THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG[1899]
THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE[1902]
WAS IT HEAVEN? OR HELL?[1902]
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER[1916]
AFTERWORD
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
A NOTE ON THE TEXT

When I was 27 years old, I worked in an office in San Francisco. I did my job well and my future was promising. I was alone in the world and I was happy. On Saturday afternoons I didn’t work. I sailed my little sailboat on San Francisco Bay. One Saturday afternoon, I sailed out too far. The strong afternoon wind pushed my sailboat out of the bay, into the Pacific Ocean.
That night, when I had lost all hope, a small British brig saw me and took me on board. The brig was sailing to London. The voyage was long and stormy. I worked as a sailor to pay for my trip.
When I arrived in London, my clothes were old and dirty. I had only one dollar in my pocket. With this dollar, I ate and slept for the first twenty-four hours. During the next twenty-four hours, I didn’t eat and I didn’t sleep.
At about ten o’clock the following morning, I went to Portland Place. I saw a child walking past, holding a big pear. The child ate one small piece and then threw the pear onto the street.
I stopped and looked at it. I was very hungry and I really wanted that pear. But every time I tried to get it, someone passed by and looked at me. I quickly turned in the other direction and waited for the person to pass by. I tried again and again to get that pear, but the same thing happened. I was desperate. I decided to get the pear and not to worry about the people who saw me. At that moment, a gentleman opened a window behind me and said, “Come in here, please.”