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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Fleeing his drunken father, the boy Huckleberry Finn rafts down the Mississippi with Jim, a man escaping slavery, and the great river carries them past feuding families, con men and the whole moral tangle of the antebellum South. Twain maps the real river: Huck's town on the Missouri bank, the island where he meets Jim, the raft drifting ever southward, the shore towns of the Duke and the Dauphin, and the Arkansas farm where the journey ends.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Twain renamed his boyhood Hannibal “St. Petersburg”, but built it exactly: the Mississippi bank, the cave, the graveyard on the hill, Cardiff Hill above the town. Hannibal has marked those spots for tourists ever since, which makes it a rare novel a reader can already walk. It brings Mark Twain and the Mississippi into the atlas.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
The mischievous boy Tom Sawyer roams a sleepy Mississippi river town through a summer of whitewashed fences, pirate games, buried treasure and a murder witnessed at midnight. Twain drew St Petersburg from his own Hannibal, Missouri, and maps its real world: the village and Aunt Polly's, the graveyard and the schoolhouse, Jackson's Island where the boys run wild, and the cave where Tom and Becky are lost and Injun Joe meets his end.
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