Mark Twain’s two most famous novels are published here as the continuous narrative that he originally envisioned. Twain started writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn soon after finishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), but difficulties with the sequel took him eight years to resolve. Consequently his contemporary readers failed to view the volumes as the companion books he had intended. In the twentieth century, publishers, librarians, and academics continued to separate the two titles, with the result that they are seldom read sequentially even though they feature many of the same characters and their narratives open in the identical Mississippi River village, St. Petersburg. This Original Text Edition brings the stories back together and faithfully follows the wording of the first editions.
- ISBN10 1603062378
- ISBN13 9781603062374
- Publish Date 1 October 2012 (first published 30 January 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint NewSouth Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 522
- Language English