What if the boy vagabond of Mark Twain's most famous novel were actually a girl? The secret has finally been revealed. The real Huck Finn (now Sarah Mary Williams) tells her own story, picking up where Twain's book leaves off, regaling the reader with her adventures: crossing the Great Plains by covered wagon, making a fortune in the San Francisco Gold Rush, encountering s
What if the boy vagabond of Mark Twain's most famous novel were actually a girl? The secret has finally been revealed. The real Huck Finn (now Sarah Mary Williams) tells her own story, picking up where Twain's book leaves off, regaling the reader with her adventures: crossing the Great Plains by covered wagon, making a fortune in the San Francisco Gold Rush, encountering some long-lost relations and escaping their murderous intentions, finding love on the shores of remote Lake Tahoe, and meeting a young reporter for a Nevada newspaper--one Samuel L. Clemens Old friends are not forgotten--we meet, once more, the folks from Hannibal--Tom Sawyer and Aunt Polly and of course Jim, now freed and prospering, as well as the famous author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, whose plans for a sequel are suddenly (and surprisingly) dependent on the consent and cooperation of the subject. Sarah Mary's journeys take her back and forth across a continent, coming to their earthly conclusion with the great Earthquake of 1906, in the ruins of which is found this manuscript, setting the record straight at last.
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Paperback
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404 pages
Published
December 15th 2013
by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform