'New' Mark Twain Story to Be Published

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'New' Mark Twain Story to Be Published


Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); Library of Congress photo
Posted by Tom LeGro, March 12, 2009


It's been a busy week for famous dead writers. On Monday, a nearly 400-year-old portrait of William Shakespeare was uncovered in England. Now comes news that a previously unpublished short story by Mark Twain will come out next week, nearly 99 years after his death.

The Strand Magazine, a quarterly mystery publication, will publish Twain's short story, "The Undertaker's Tale." It's a story about an orphan taken in by an undertaker and his family, who are struggling to repay a debt to a villainous character.

"It has all the ingredients that make a Twain story great," said Andrew Gulli, The Strand's editor. "It's sentimental, yet there's that biting wit."

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the great American humorist and author who wrote under the pen name of Mark Twain, died in 1910, leaving behind a trove of letters, papers and unpublished work. "The Undertaker's Tale" was in the possession of the Mark Twain Papers and Project, a working archive at the University of California.

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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/03/new-mark-twain-story-to-be-published.html

[Mrs. Overall]

1. Very cool!

[malaise]

2. Nice

Thanks

[Boojatta]

3. Is the word "new" in quotation marks in deference to Aristotle's writings about logic?

Why not just say that the anticipated publication of it will be a first?

[babylonsister]

4. Probably 'new' as in previously unpublished. nt