Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians : and other unfinished stories / Mark Twain ; foreword and notes by Dahlia Armon and Walter Blair ; text established by Dahlia Armon ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Contributor:

Armon, Dahlia.

Blair, Walter.

Series:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Mark Twain library.

Mark Twain library

Mark Twain Library

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character).

Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character).

Indians of North America--Fiction.

Indians of North America.

Humorous stories, American.

Racism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

[2nd ed.].

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memoryo Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in MissouriThroughout 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of these selections (eight of them fiction and three of them autobiographical) were never completed, and all were left unpublished.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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

Boy's Manuscript

Letter to William Bowen

Tuppervilh-Dolobsville

Clairvoyant

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians

Jane Lampton Clemens

Villagers of 1840-3

Hellfire Hotchkiss

Tom Sawyers Conspiracy

Schoolhouse Hill

HuckFinn

Explanatory Notes

Biographical Directory

References

Note on the Text

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613278630

9781283278638

1283278634

9780520950603

0520950607

OCLC:

741492984