Mark Twain - Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians : and other unfinished stories

MARK TWAIN

AND OTHER UNFINISHED STORIES

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Huck waited for no particulars. He sprang away
and sped down the hill as fast as his
legs could carry him.

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

Mark Twain at the Hannibal train station in June 1902.

Associate Editors

Robert Pack Browning

Richard Bucci

Victor Fischer

Michael B. Frank

Paul Machlis

Kenneth M. Sanderson

Harriet Elinor Smith

MARK TWAIN

AND OTHER UNFINISHED STORIES

Foreword and Notes by
Dahlia Armon and Walter Blair

Text established by
Dahlia Armon, Paul Baender, Walter Blair,
William M. Gibson, and Franklin R. Rogers

A publication of the
Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library

This Mark Twain Library volume reprints ten of Mark Twains works as they were published in four volumes of the Mark Twain Papers and Works of Mark Twain: Satires & Burlesques (1967), ed. Franklin R. Rogers; Hannibal, Huck & Tom (1969), ed. Walter Blair; Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (1969), ed. William M. Gibson; and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective (1980), ed. John C. Gerber, Paul Baender, and Terry Firkins. All but the first of these editions were endorsed by the Center for Editions of American Authors (CEAA) or its successor, the Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE). The selection reprinted from Satires & Burlesques has been re-edited in accord with standards set by the CSE, and errors since identified in the other texts have been corrected in this reprinting and are recorded in the note on the text. An eleventh work, Letter to William Bowen, has not yet appeared in the Papers and Works and has here been edited from the original manuscript in, and with the consent of, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Newly typeset matter has been proofread in accord with CSE standards.

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Editorial work on this volume has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, to the Mark Twain Project in The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Those grants included funding conditional on its being matched dollar for dollar, which was done by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and other donors to The Friends of The Bancroft Library. Mark Twains works in, and all his words quoted from unpublished sources in the annotation for, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians, and Other Unfinished Stories, are 1938, 1942, 1967, 1969 and 1989 by Edward J. Willi and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company as trustees of the Mark Twain Foundation, which reserves all reproduction or dramatization rights in every medium. Editorial foreword, explanatory notes, biographical directory, and note on the text are 1989 by The Regents of the University of California.

The Library of Congress has cataloged an earlier edition of this book as follows:

Library of Congress

Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Twain, Mark, 18351910.

[Short stories. Selections.]

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians and other unfinished stories / Mark Twain; foreword and notes by Dahlia Armon and Walter Blair; texts established by Dahlia Armon... [et al.].

p. cm. (Mark Twain library)

I. Armon, Dahlia. II. Blair, Walter, 1900 . III. Title. IV. Series: Twain, Mark, 18351910. Mark Twain Library.

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper).

The Mark Twain Library is designed by Steve Renick.

The texts reprinted in this Mark Twain Library volume, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians, and Other Unfinished Stories, are drawn from four volumes of the Mark Twain Projects comprehensive edition of The Mark Twain Papers and Works of Mark Twain, and from one original manuscript at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Editorial work for this volume has been supported by a generous donation from the