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Lancer Books (1968), Edition: 1st THUS, 252 pages
Description
These unjustly neglected works, among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels, follow Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon, then down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime. Both with the original illustrations by Dan Beard and A.B. Frost."Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? No, he wasn't. It only just pisoned him for more." So Huck declares at the start of these once-celebrated but now little-known sequels to his own adventures. Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas and see some of the world's greatest wonders.
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LibraryThing member Lukerik
Two stories for the Sawyer/Finn fanatics. 'Abroad' is a satire of the science fiction adventure stories of the time. It reads today like proto-steampunk. A weak and ridiculous story which has some great interplay between the three characters. 'Detective' has more of a story, such as it is, but
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suffers by the absence of Jim. Show Less
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1894 (Tom Sawyer Abroad)
1896 (Tom Sawyer, Detective)
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252 p.