... 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 to the newspaper the ... It was the following observation of the realization about the wrongs of slavery that stayed with Clemens while wring such stories as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. As a young boy, Sam saw his father administering a beating to Jennie, the Clemenses' only ....

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