Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians : and other unfinished stories

Author(s)

• Twain, Mark
• Armon, Dahlia
• Blair, Walter

Bibliographic Information

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians : and other unfinished stories

Mark Twain ; foreword and notes by Dahlia Armon and Walter Blair ; texts established by Dahlia Armon ... [et al.]

（Mark Twain library）

University of California Press, [2011], c1989

• : pbk

Note

"Texts established by Dahlia Armon, Paul Baender, Walter Blair, William M. Gibson, and Franklin R. Rogers"

"A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library"

On first page: JOB:#:169860 ... Trim size:5.5×8.25

"The texts reprinted in this Mark Twain Library volume, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians, and other unfinished stories, are drawn from four volumes of the Mark Twain Project's comprehensive edition of The Mark Twain papers and works of Mark Twain, and from one original manuscript at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin."--P. [ix]

Date of publication from website of University of California Press

"The authoritative texts"--Cover

Bibliography: p. [353]-369

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This title includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902. It publishes, for the first time, the complete text of 'Villagers of 1840-3,' Mark Twain's astounding feat of memory. It 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of these selections (eight of them fiction and three of them autobiographical) were never completed, and all were left unpublished.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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• NCID: BB28112293
• ISBN:
  • 9780520271500
• LCCN: 88027894
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 375 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS1302
  • DC22 : 813.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Indians of North America -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Humorous stories, American
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01054235