Record Added: 4/12/2016 Series Educator Classic Library Setting  United States Topic Children's Fiction, Class Publisher Classic Press ISBN B00O6I0AWU Year 1970 Age 9-12 Pages 256 Description Printed binding
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"Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual - he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture. The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story- that is to say. thirty or forty years ago."
"Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in." |
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