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left unpublished.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.
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