Publisher: Hartford
Authors: Mark Twain
Publish Year: 2006
Pages: 345
ISBN10: 74
Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were
experiences of my own, the rest those 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.