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Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read and enjoyed of all our national writers. This Library of America collection presents his best-known works, together for the first time in one volume. 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 comic and melodramatic adventure, with horseplay and poetic evocations of scenery, and with characters who have become central to American mythology—not only Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, but also Roxy, the mulatto slave in Puddn’head Wilson, one of the most te

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Author

Mark Twain; Guy Cardwell; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Publisher

Literary Classics of the United States Distributed to the trade by the Viking Press Distributed to the trade by the Viking Press

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780940450073

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Adventure, Fiction

Rating

4.45 / 5 (825 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14