Feldner

Its title character, “No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger,” is a boy with miraculous powers who appears in a medieval Austrian village, finds himself an outcast, and forms a friendship with the narrator August Feldner, with whom he shares the secrets of the dream self and the “real” self.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Its title character, “No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger,” is a boy with miraculous powers who appears in a medieval Austrian village, finds himself an outcast, and forms a friendship with the narrator August Feldner, with whom he shares the secrets of the dream self and the “real” self.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

He brooded over the shame of his chastisement for two weeks, and then, in a momentary fit of insanity, armed himself to the teeth, rode into town, waited a couple of hours until he saw Feldner coming down the street with his wife on his arm, and then, as the couple passed the doorway in which he had partially concealed himself, he drove a knife into Feldner's neck, killing him instantly.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

Twice, in public, he attacked a German butcher by the name of Bemis Feldner, with a cane, and both times Feldner whipped him with his fists.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

Twice, in public, he attacked a German butcher by the name of Bemis Feldner, with a cane, and both times Feldner whipped him with his fists.

A New Crime: Legislation Needed 1890

He brooded over the shame of his chastisement for two weeks, and then, in a momentary fit of insanity, armed himself to the teeth, rode into town, waited a couple of hours until he saw Feldner coming down the street with his wife on his arm, and then, as the couple passed the doorway in which he had partially concealed himself, he drove a knife into Feldner's neck, killing him instantly.

A New Crime: Legislation Needed 1890

He brooded over the shame of his chastisement for two weeks, and then, in a momentary fit of insanity, armed himself to the teeth, rode into town, waited a couple of hours until he saw Feldner coming down the street with his wife on his arm, and then, as the couple passed the doorway in which he had partially concealed himself, he drove a knife into Feldner's neck, killing him instantly.

Sketches New and Old, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

Twice, in public, he attacked a German butcher by the name of Bemis Feldner, with a cane, and both times Feldner whipped him with his fists.

Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

He brooded over the shame of his chastisement for two weeks, and then, in a momentary fit of insanity, armed himself to the teeth, rode into town, waited a couple of hours until he saw Feldner coming down the street with his wife on his arm, and then, as the couple passed the doorway in which he had partially concealed himself, he drove a knife into Feldner's neck, killing him instantly.

Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

Twice, in public, he attacked a German butcher by the name of Bemis Feldner, with a cane, and both times Feldner whipped him with his fists.

Sketches New and Old, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872