Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians

Name: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Twain and Lee Nelson
ISBN: 9781455104031

Author: Mark Twain and Lee Nelson

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

In 1885, while The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was becoming one of the bestselling American classics of modern times, Mark Twain began this sequel in which Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim head west on the trail of two white girls kidnapped by Sioux warriors. Fifteen thousand words into the work, Twain stopped in the middle of a sentence, never to go back. The unfinished story sat on dusty shelves for more than a hundred years until author Lee Nelson decided to finish it, using Twains incomplete manuscripts. The result is a story of adventure, wit, and wisdom, with readers saying they cant tell where Twain leaves off and Nelson begins. Tom and Huck seek true love while tramping through Indian country, stealing from the U. S. Army, facing a gunfight and hangmans noose in California, and learning the hard way that book Injuns and real Injuns aint the same.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on September 25, 2021

Twain got 50 pages into a (shocking, anti-Indian) sequel to "Finn" meant to strip away myths about the Old West that he abandoned after realizing he'd painted himself into a corner. An attempt at a light "Finn" sequel, a mystery, was pages from the likely end before Twain dropped it too. A few sligh......more

Goodreads review by Josh on March 22, 2014

An entertaining and enjoyable collection of abandoned works from Twain. My favorites were the Tom & Huck title piece, and Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy, both of which far outshine Tom Sawyer, Detective in my estimation. The only frustration with the book was turning the page of a story you were enthralled......more

Goodreads review by Scott on November 08, 2014

An enjoyable look into Twain's writing process. My favorite stories in the collection are the nearly complete Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy and the false start of an early Mysterious Stranger story, Schoolhouse Hill. The Biographical Dictionary appendix is enlightening and educational, plus interesting to......more

Goodreads review by Julie on July 23, 2008

Mark Twain is one of my favorite authors. This book was very different as it is a variety of unfinished stories so they abruptly end and you just have to imagine the ending Mark Twain would have given it.......more