To clarify what I wrote about "Stranger"... none are in dialect- in fact they take place in Austria, but Twain wrote several versions, and never blessed any of them. Then died before publication. So there is an early version then a later version released second hand. The latter supposedly better researched and closer to his goal.

It displays his scorn for organized religion and Christianity...you know, all those subjects the cognizati around XPT deal in.