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   Was Huckleberry Finn based on Tom Sawyer?

   • Huckleberry Finn was an offshoot from Tom Sawyer and had a more serious tone than its predecessor. Four hundred manuscript pages were written in mid-1876, right after the publication of Tom Sawyer. The last fifth of Huckleberry Finn is subject to much controversy.

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   Who was Tom Blankenship in Huckleberry Finn?

   • Blankenship later became his inspiration for Huck Finn in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Blankenship grew up in a poor family with a notoriously drunk father. In his biography, Twain wrote, "In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.

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   Is Tom Sawyer a hymn to childhood?

   • The highly episodic narrative of Tom Sawyer, which recounts the mischievous adventures of a boy growing up along the Mississippi River, was coloured by a nostalgia for childhood and simplicity that would permit Twain to characterize the novel as a “hymn” to childhood.

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   Did Mark Twain write a satire about Isaiah Sellers?

   • In his autobiography, Twain writes further of Captain Sellers's use of "Mark Twain": I was a cub pilot on the Mississippi River then, and one day I wrote a rude and crude satire which was leveled at Captain Isaiah Sellers, the oldest steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, and the most respected, esteemed, and revered.

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   3 days ago · Twain wrote many of his classic novels during his 17 years in Hartford (1874–1891) and over 20 summers at Quarry Farm. They include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).

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   5 days ago · In the summer of 1876, while staying with his in-laws Susan and Theodore Crane on Quarry Farm overlooking Elmira, Clemens began writing what he called in a letter to his friend William Dean Howells “Huck Finn’s Autobiography.” Huck had appeared as a character in Tom Sawyer, and Clemens decided that the untutored boy had his own story to tell.

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   5 days ago · Similarly, in Tom Sawyer, he treated childhood not as the achievement of obedience to adult authority but as a period of mischief-making fun and good-natured affection. Like Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, which he much admired, Huckleberry Finn rang changes on the picaresque novel that are of permanent interest.

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   2 days ago · Adventurous, eloquent and funny, Mark Twain wrote the classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is quoted every day for his wit and wisdom. But this author ...

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   4 days ago · The conceit of James is to reimagine the story of Huckleberry Finn from James/Jim’s perspective—and since large swaths of Huckleberry Finn appear to be pure invention on the part of Huck, and ...

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   4 days ago · A beautiful cover that replicates the first edition cover. The complete text in an easy-to-read font similar to the original. Look for other Mark Twain books in our 100th Anniversary Collection. Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up with in Missouri.

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   3 days ago · You might be surprised. It’s not Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn. It’s The Innocents Abroad, published in 1869, firmly establishing Mark Twain as a serious writer. This was Twain’s second book, and an outgrowth of an assignment from the Daily Alta California, a San Francisco newspaper, to pay him $1,250 to file letters from abroad for ...