Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain

by Roy Morris Jr.

Book Overview

In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain'sAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it's time "to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest." Tom Sawyer's Aunt Sally is trying to "sivilize" him, and Huck Finn can't stand it-he's been there before.It's a decision Huck's creator already had made, albeit for somewhat different reasons, a quarter of a century earlier. He wasn't even Mark Twain then, but as Huck might...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416598669
• ISBN13: 9781416598664
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"