by Mark Twain · Verso da História · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789895549092
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«Nº 44, Um Estranho Misterioso» is Mark Twain's posthumous novel published by Verso da História in paperback (248 pages, in Portuguese).
In medieval Austria, children from an isolated village meet an angel named Satan who shows them the fragility and meaninglessness of human existence. More than an adventure, it is a pessimistic reflection on human nature.
Mark Twain worked on this novel for twelve years and left three versions; it was published posthumously in 1916. The 2012 Portuguese edition offers the first translation of the work in Portugal.
For readers of American literary classics interested in Mark Twain's philosophical and pessimistic side, in a Portuguese edition.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
