... 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 to the newspaper the Alta California: "Hannibal has had a hard time of it ever since I can recollect, and I was raised' there. First, it had for ... Abroad, 1869; Roughing It, 1872; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876; A Tramp Abroad, 1880; The Prince and the Pauper, 1882; Life on the Mississippi 1883; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885; A Connec...

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