Talk:The Mysterious Stranger

message: I think there needs to be an explanation for the youtube video link.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.227.27.177 (talk) 04:53, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Link

message: The Characters section is definitely incomplete, and the rest of the article could use a re-write too.  Oddity- (talk) 08:59, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characters 

message: The article currently does not mention the lengths of the three stories.  It's impossible to tell whether each of them is 1,000 pages or 2 pages.  Could someone knowledgeable add this information to each?  Tempshill (talk) 22:36, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In Gibson's edition, it's roughly 140 / 46 / 188 pages, according to Google Books. --Jvs.cz (talk) 08:21, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lengths of the three stories? 

message: Maybe I'm just getting my definitions wrong, but isn't "There is nothing but you" more like solipsism than anything else? Existentialism means "Firstly, I exist in the world" and not that the world isn't real, or does it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.186.230.4 (talk) 08:02, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Existentialist philosophy? 

message: A short animated film has been made of 'The Mysterious Stranger' but was banned from the childrens television station it was aired on after people complained about it's suitability.
source? what "childrens television station"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zerothis (talk • contribs) 04:38, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  childrens television station? 

message: This story has an appearance in the book Man the Myth Maker.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.72.87 (talk) 20:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version of this story in Man the Myth Maker 

message: Is the "Mysterious Stranger" of Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" intended to be a reference to this book?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.62.226.199 (talk) 05:46, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rainbows End reference? 

message: The book takes place in Austria during the Late Renaissance, not the Middle Ages. The narrator says "Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever." indicating that the Renaissance had not reached Austria yet.
174.102.234.140 (talk) 00:07, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Setting 

message: Why is there just a big blank space in the indroduction? 96.224.64.42 (talk) 20:06, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possiable Vandalism? 

message: I feel that the article as written is very scattered and lacks focus.  As a result I feel that it doesn't really inform the reader what the book is aside from the fact that it is a book by Mark Twain that he took several attempts at writing.  I am wondering what the best approach to fixing this is.  I know the matter is complicated somewhat by the Thomas Paine version of the book, and the debate as to which of Twain's manuscripts would be the definitive version.  I've been wondering if the article should reduce the section on the Thomas Paine version of the book to a small paragraph detailing the origins of its creation while the main article should summarize the events of the "Print Shop" version of the book, since according to literary scholar William M. Gibson that was the version of the story that Twain would have published had he lived.  I'm a little new to the whole editing of an article and I was hoping to get some feedback from somebody with more experience before moving forward.Normaschthewanderer (talk) 06:37, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: While I agree that the article should be improved I am not sure that the "Print Shop" version should be considered definitive or superior version of the story. --Jvs (talk) 16:23, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

text: For the claim "according to literary scholar William M. Gibson that was the version of the story that Twain would have published had he lived" citation is needed. In his introduction to The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts Gibson never states anything like this. --Jvs (talk) 19:09, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

text: Well, I found a similar claim here on page 2 (book jacket). But it is unsigned. --Jvs (talk) 19:00, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

text: Also, Twain wrote the "Print Shop" version between 1902 and 1908 and died in April 1910 so it seems that he could publish the book if he wished so. --Jvs (talk) 20:02, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewriting the Article