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Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians - And Other Unfinished Stories (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition) Loot Price: R575
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Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians - And Other Unfinished Stories (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Mark Twain

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians - And Other Unfinished Stories (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Mark Twain; Edited by Walter Blair, Robert Hirst; Created by Richard A Watson

Series: Mark Twain Library, 7

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o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902
o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memory
o Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri


Throughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be known as the Matter of Hannibal inspired two of his most famous books, "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn," and provided the basis for the eleven pieces reprinted here. Most of these selections (eight of them fiction and three of them autobiographical) were never completed, and all were left unpublished. Written between 1868 and 1902, they include a diverse assortment of adventures, satires, and reminiscences in which the characters of his own childhood and of his best-loved fiction, particularly Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, come alive again. The autobiographical recollections culminate in an astounding feat of memory titled "Villagers of 1840-3" in which the author, writing for himself alone at the age of sixty-one, recalls with humor and pathos the characters of some one hundred and fifty people from his childhood. Accompanied by notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri, the selections in this volume offer a revealing view of Mark Twain's varied and repeated attempts to give literary expression to the Matter of Hannibal.

General

Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Mark Twain Library, 7
Release date: June 2011
First published: July 2011
Authors: Mark Twain
Editors: Walter Blair • Robert Hirst
Creators: Richard A Watson
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 392
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-27150-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 0-520-27150-5
Barcode: 9780520271500

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