A huge thank you to Holly and to Manda for hosting the ever intense bookclub gathering. My how these books challenge and draw us into great discussion! Thank you for taking the time and energy to keep this all going. :)
As requested by Connie, here is the quote from the review that I read this morning.
"Yet the story is capital reading, and the reason of its great superiority to 'Tom Sawyer' is that it is, for the most part, a consistent whole. If Mark Twain would follow his hero through manhood, he would condense a side of American life that, in a few years, will have to be delved out of newspapers, government reports, county histories, and misleading traditions by unsympathetic sociologists."
~From a review in "The Century," May 1885, by Thomas Perry Sergeant
Here is a link to an article that gives great insight into Samuel Clemens' upbringing and influences
www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae/fall2002/trillingsbburns.cfm
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