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Mark Twain worked in parallel on three mysterious manuscripts set in the past and in three different settings, with the same diabolically charming young Satan, after whose appearance among people, unusual supernatural events occur.
The first and most famous version of the manuscript, entitled "The Mysterious Stranger", was printed in 1916 after the author's death, and more than half a century later, in 1969, a longer and more provocative version was published under the title "Number 44, the Mysterious Stranger". The latter turned out to be the best, with the fewest editorial interventions, with a particularly intriguing final chapter in which the author, through the Dishonest, who introduces himself as "Number 44, new series 864.962", settles scores with both people and God, and at one point says that, in fact, nothing exists "neither God, nor the universe, nor the human race, nor life on Earth, nor heaven, nor hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque, a mere mad dream. There is nothing but You. And You are only a Thought..."
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