Ebook The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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 Firm 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.