The Boys' Life Of Mark Twain

Hannibal was a growing community with a sizable amount of commerce. Being a slave town, it was sleepy but not lifeless. "The white town drowsing in the brightness of a summer morning," was how Mark Twain described it. Hannibal had brought John Clemens varied fortunes, and his commercial misfortunes prompted him to sell his slave girl. The majority of the experiences detailed in this book, according to Mark Twain, actually happened.
Original Tom Blankenship, a local waif, was Huck Finn, the "...