Sam Clemens of Hannibal
By: by Dixon Wecter
Edition: Sentry edition.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Copyright date: 1952
Subjects: Homes and haunts; American Authors; Biography; Intellectual life
Description: This is the first definitive biography of the real Tom Sawyer--the fun-loving practical joker whose youth in a Mississippi River town typifies the Golden Age of American Boyhood. No major writer ever made more of his boyhood than did Samuel Clemens whose growing up has become a part of our common heritage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Damn the ancestors"; title: The Lampton side; title: "The Tennessee land"; title: Florida, an almost invisible town; title: The idyl begins; title: Judge Clemens in Hannibal; title: Reading, writing, and religion; title: Summers at the farm; title: "The precious gift of death"; title: The little family; title: The gang; title: On the prowl; title: Instruments of culture; title: The printer's devil; title: Orion and Sam; title: "To destiny I bend."