Mark Twain

Mark Twain is, according to critics and readers alike, the first great American novelist (Reuben). Throughout his lifetime Twain, born Samuel Longhorn Clemens, held an eclectic mix of jobs, and, wrote a great deal about his experiences and his boyhood. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (AOTS) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (AOHF) are a pair of novels by Twain that: present the new and radical changes in the early 1800s in contrast to the old …

…before TAOTS, but had to put it aside. When he started up again he wrote TAOTS for money but kept TAOHF in it's pure form. TAOHF is his commentary on: society--that it does no good; on religion--that only fools believe in it; and on men--that they do evil but can do good. But essentially the novels are simple local-colour stories of boyhood and the journey to manhood in a romantic, and alternatively, in a realist.