... Microsoft Encarta (2002). It was in Hannibal that Clemens would make and live some of the extraordinary stories that would shape his two most popular novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Clemens would share words about Hannibal, Missouri in a letter ... term on the Mississippi that would provide Clemens with his' pseudonym, that would last for generations to come. He was required to anticipate the force of the current going upstream and downstream make mental- notes of the changing depths at every crucial spot where the leadsmen drop...

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... , which serves to minimize the force of the most painful implications. The symptoms of this fallen society, which Twain brilliantly exhibits in both of his "twin- novels, include the continual struggle between union and disunion for individuals and the society as a whole. The author's early work often dealt with man's internal fights with his own conscience. In both Pudd'nhead Wilson and ... results in prosecution of the "guilty- and compensation of the "innocent."" But even the potential detective hero (Wilson) shows how easily one succumbs to a belief in racial predisposition when he n...

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