Synopses & Reviews
This is Mark Twainand#8217;s first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the worldand#8217;s best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twainand#8217;s own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Pollyand#8217;s fence, Tom and Huckand#8217;s dreadful oath, their cure for warts ("spunk water" and dead cats), Tomand#8217;s puppy love for Becky Thatcher, the boys playing "pirate" on Jacksonand#8217;s Island.
This Mark Twain Library text is the only edition since the first (1876) to be based directly on the authorand#8217;s manuscript and to include all of the "200 rattling pictures" Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams.
Synopsis
This Mark Twain Library text is the only edition since the first (1876) to be based directly on the author's manuscript and to include all of the "200 rattling pictures" Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams.
About the Author
The Mark Twain Project is a major editorial and publishing program of The Bancroft Library. Its six resident editors are at work on a comprehensive scholarly edition of all of Mark Twain's private papers and published works. Twenty-three of an estimated seventy volumes in The Works and Papers of Mark Twain are currently available.