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This Library of America collection presents Twain's best-known works, including Adventures of Hucklebery Finn, together in one volume for the first time.

Tom Sawyer “is simply a hymn,” said its author, “put into prose form to give it a worldly air,” a book where nostalgia is so strong that it dissolves the tensions and perplexities that assert themselves in the later works. Twain began Huckleberry Finn the same year Tom Sawyer was published, but he was unable to complete it for several more. It was during this period of uncertainty that Twain made a pilgrimage to the scenes of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a trip that led eventually to Life on the Mississippi. The river in Twain’s descriptions is a bewitching mixture of beauty and power, seductive calms and treacherous shoals, pleasure and terror, an image of the societies it touches and transports.
 
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Mark Twain Mississippi Writings LOA 5 Library of

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      Publisher The Library of America
      Published 1 November 1982
      ISBN-13 9780940450073
      978-0940450073
      ISBN-10 0940450070
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      Books by Mark Twain

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This Library of America collection presents Twain's best-known works, including Adventures of Hucklebery Finn, together in one volume for the first time.

      Tom Sawyer “is simply a hymn,” said its author, “put into prose form to give it a worldly air,” a book where nostalgia is so strong that it dissolves the tensions and perplexities that assert themselves in the later works. Twain began Huckleberry Finn the same year Tom Sawyer was published, but he was unable to complete it for several more. It was during this period of uncertainty that Twain made a pilgrimage to the scenes of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a trip that led eventually to Life on the Mississippi. The river in Twain’s descriptions is a bewitching mixture of beauty and power, seductive calms and treacherous shoals, pleasure and terror, an image of the societies it touches and transports.
       
      Each of these works is filled with c

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