![]() ![]() Written between 18, 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. Most of these selections (eight of them fiction and three of them autobiographical) were never completed, and all were left unpublished. 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. Throughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. O Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri ![]() O Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memory O Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 18 ![]()
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