Bibliograph

Sam Clemens of Hannibal, by Dixon Wecter

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Sam Clemens of Hannibal, by Dixon Wecter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

portraitsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sam Clemens of Hannibal

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

188710

Responsibility statement

by Dixon Wecter

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

"Damn the ancestors" -- The Lampton side -- "The Tennessee land" -- Florida, an almost invisible town -- The idyl begins -- Judge Clemens in Hannibal -- Reading, writing, and religion -- Summers at the farm -- "The precious gift of death" -- The little family -- The gang -- On the prowl -- Instruments of culture -- The printer's devil -- Orion and Sam -- "To destiny I bend."

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