The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Twain, Mark) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The derivation of the pen name, Mark Twain, from a pilot´s call while making soundings on the Mississippi indicates Samuel Clemens´ devotion to the river of his youth. To it, and the boats and personalities it bore, America´s world-renowned writer owed a lifelong allegiance. His participation in the river´s colorful life and his love of its own brand of humor provided the background for those stories which have forever made the world richer. Beginning with his early humorous works of pioneering adventure, Mark Twain developed a career without parallel in American letters and extended it in his later, deeply earnest The Mysterious Stranger and his reverent Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Samuel Clemens was born in Florida, Mo., on November 30, 1835. At the age of four he was taken to Hannibal, Mo., where his father died four years later. Thrust upon the world, the boy learned to set type, and very early in life became a journeyman printer. After working in various cities in the Middle West and East, he left his trade when he was sixteen years old to become a Mississippi River pilot. During the Civil War he prospected for gold in Nevada and voyaged to the Sandwich Islands. From a post on the Virginia City Enterprise, he went to San Francisco and found welcome there among a circle of writers that included Bret Harte, Artemus Ward and others. The story that brought him early national fame was The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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