Overview: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which w
“The Widow's Son”: Masonic Parody in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
✍ Scribed by Randall A. Clack
- Book ID
- 118080191
- Publisher
- The Pennsylvania State University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 572 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1553-0981
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