The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

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In the second story, an evil little boy steals and lies, like Tom Sawyer, but finishes rich and successful. Tom appears as a mixture of these little boys since he is at the same time a scamp and a boy endowed with a certain generosity. By the time he wrote Tom Sawyer , Twain was already a successful author based on the popularity of The Innocents Abroad. He owned a large house in Hartford, Connecticut but needed another success to support himself, with a wife and two daughters. Twain named his fictional character after a San Francisco fireman whom he met in June The real Tom Sawyer was a local hero, famous for rescuing 90 passengers after a shipwreck.

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The two remained friendly during Twain's three-year stay in San Francisco, often drinking and gambling together. A little later, Twain had the text also quickly published at Chatto and Windus of London, in June , but without illustration. Pirate editions appeared very quickly in Canada and Germany. The American Publishing Company finally published its edition in December , which was the first illustrated edition of Tom Sawyer.

These two editions differ slightly. After completing his manuscript, Twain had a copy made of it. It is this copy which was read and annotated by his friend William Dean Howells. Twain then made his own corrections based on Howells comments which he later incorporated in the original manuscript, but some corrections escaped him.

The English edition was based on this corrected copy, while the illustrated American edition was based on the original manuscript. To further complicate matters, Twain was personally concerned with the revision of the proofs of the American edition, which he did not do for the English edition.

The American edition is therefore considered the authoritative edition. A third person narrator describes the experiences of the boys, interspersed with occasional social commentary. In its sequel, Huckleberry Finn , Mark Twain changes to a first person narrative which takes moral conflicts more personally and thus makes greater social criticism possible.

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Sometimes the book is described as racist because black people are called " niggers " in the text. A cleansed version, which no longer contained the word, aroused indignation among some literary critics.

Tom Sawyer , the story's title character, also appears in two other uncompleted sequels: He is also a character in Twain's unfinished Schoolhouse Hill. Canadian rock band Rush published a song entitled Tom Sawyer in , which is inspired by the book. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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