Twain, Mark,  1835-1910, <br/><br/>
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn / 
Mark Twain ; with an introduction by Miles Donald. 
 - xxxvii, 559 pages  map  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. xxix). 
<br/><br/> All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn . . . All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. Ernest Hemingway  As characters Tom and Huck have become American myths (a form of transubstantiation achieved by remarkably few fictional creations in the last hundred years), and that very fact indicates that whatever distinctions are made between the two novels, and however many reservations are cited about either or both, Twain possessed extraordinary imaginative power. from the Introduction by Miles Donald. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0679405844 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>91053010 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction<br/>Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)--Fiction<br/>Boys--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mississippi River--Fiction<br/>Missouri--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Humorous fiction.<br/>Adventure fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS1306  / .A1 1991a 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.4