![]() This summer it is no more trouble to me to write than it is to lie. I believe I shall complete, in two months, a book which I have been going over for 7 years. He reported to his family: “I am piling up manuscript in a really astonishing way. It was his return to the great river that enabled Twain to return to Huck: he knew that the river was the structural center of the book and its life’s blood now all went well. Twain did put the book aside for seven years, during which time he produced A Tramp Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper, and Life on the Mississippi. He gave up the notion of carrying Huck on into adulthood and told Howells of what he had written thus far: “I like it only tolerably well, and may possibly pigeonhole or burn the ms. ![]() “BY AND BY,” Mark Twain wrote to William Dean Howells in 1875, “I shall take a boy of twelve and run him through life (in the first person) but not Tom Sawyer -he would not be a good character for it.” A month later he knew that the boy would be Huck, and he began work by midsummer of 1876 Twain was well under way. ![]()
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