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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Everyman's Library) Hardcover – November 26, 1991
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Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn, the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American fiction that followed it, is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a tremendous parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.
- Print length600 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherEveryman's Library
- Publication dateNovember 26, 1991
- Dimensions5.3 x 1.3 x 8.3 inches
- ISBN-100679405844
- ISBN-13978-0679405849
- Lexile measure560L
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“As characters Tom and Huck have become American myths (a form of transubstantiation achieved by remarkably few fictional creations in the last hundred years), and that very fact indicates that whatever distinctions are made between the two novels, and however many reservations are cited about either or both, Twain possessed extraordinary imaginative power.” –from the Introduction by Miles Donald
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With the publication in 1865 of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Twain gained national attention as a frontier humorist, and the bestselling Innocents Abroad solidified his fame. But it wasn't until Life on the Mississippi (1883), and finally, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce.
Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more pessimistic—an outlook not alleviated by his natural skepticism and sarcasm. Though his fame continued to widen—Yale & Oxford awarded him honorary degrees—Twain spent his last years in gloom and exasperation, writing fables about "the damned human race."
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- Publisher : Everyman's Library; Reprint edition (November 26, 1991)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 600 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0679405844
- ISBN-13 : 978-0679405849
- Lexile measure : 560L
- Item Weight : 1.39 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.3 x 1.3 x 8.3 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #266,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,664 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction
- #7,413 in Classic Literature & Fiction
- #15,475 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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About the author
Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910). He was born and brought up in the American state of Missouri and, because of his father's death, he left school to earn his living when he was only twelve. He was a great adventurer and travelled round America as a printer; prospected for gold and set off for South America to earn his fortune. He returned to become a steam-boat pilot on the Mississippi River, close to where he had grown up. The Civil War put an end to steam-boating and Clemens briefly joined the Confederate army - although the rest of his family were Unionists! He had already tried his hand at newspaper reporting and now became a successful journalist. He started to use the alias Mark Twain during the Civil War and it was under this pen name that he became a famous travel writer. He took the name from his steam-boat days - it was the river pilots' cry to let their men know that the water was two fathoms deep.
Mark Twain was always nostalgic about his childhood and in 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, based on his own experiences. The book was soon recognised as a work of genius and eight years later the sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was published. The great writer Ernest Hemingway claimed that 'All modern literature stems from this one book.'
Mark Twain was soon famous all over the world. He made a fortune from writing and lost it on a typesetter he invented. He then made another fortune and lost it on a bad investment. He was an impulsive, hot-tempered man but was also quite sentimental and superstitious. He was born when Halley's Comet was passing the Earth and always believed he would die when it returned - this is exactly what happened.
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= Of course I have to agree with most critics that "Huckleberry Finn" is by far the better of the two stories, but only till Tom Sawyer shows up near the end and turns that part of the plot topsy-turvy. Miles Donald, who wrote an introduction to this edition, proposes a rationale for this ending - but it is not altogether convincing.
= The (physical) book is excellent with regard to binding, typography, etc. Some explanatory features have been added, including a chronology extending from 1803 (32 years before Clemens' birth, till 7 years after his death when his last (?) book was published posthumously. This list has columns for "Author's life," "Literary Context," and contemporary "Historical Events."