Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels: The Gilded Age / The American Claimant / Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective / No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (Library of America)
This latest Twain addition to the Library of America series  offers the title novel plus The American Claimant, Tom Sawyer  Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, and No. 44, the Mysterious  Stranger, all written in Twain's later years, between 1873 and  1910. The publisher claims that this text of No. 44, the  Mysterious Stranger is the "authoritative version." This also  includes the standard LOA goodies, e.g., a chronology, notes on  the text, introductions, etc. Note that Twain is the subject of  a forthcoming documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns and the book  Mark Twain (LJ 11/1/01), by Geoffrey Ward and others. Expect  demand.Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.