The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, July 21, 2012)
Mark Twain) (1835-1910) I A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OFT he Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The derivation of the pen name, Mark Twain, from a pilots call while making soxmdings on the Mississippi indicates Samuel Clemens devotioii to the river of his youth. To it, and the boats and personalities it bore, America sworld-renowned writer owed a lifelong allegiance. His participation in the rivers colorful life and his love of its own brand of humor provided the background for those stories which have forever made the world richer. Beginning with his early humorous works of pioneering adventure, Mark Twain developed a career without parallel in American letters and extended it in his later, deeply earnest The Mysterious Stranger and his reverent Personal Recollections of Joan of A rc. Samuel Clemens was bom in Florida, Mo., on November 30, 1835. At the age of four he was taken to Hannibal, Mo., where his father died four years later. Thrust upon the world, the boy learned to set type, and very early in life became a journe)nnan printer. After working in various cities in the Middle West and East, he left his trade when he was sixteen years old to become a Mississippi River pilot. During the Civil War he prospected for gold in Nevada and voyaged to the Sandwich I slands. From a post on the Virginia City Enterprise, he went to San Francisco and found welcome there among a circle of writers that included Brfet Harte, Artemus Ward and others. The story that brought him early national fame was The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of
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