Mark Twain

E. W. Kemble

John J. Harley

Victor Fischer

Lin Salamo

The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Bancroft Library

This new edition incorporates the discovery, made in 1990, of an unknown Twain manuscript, which turned out to be the original first 663 pages of Huck Finn. Before its discovery, editors had to approximate the exact wording of the first half of Twain's work by using early editions of the book, which were full of mistakes.

Tom Sawyer's Comrade ...

Charles Wohlforth

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends’ parents disappear after political arrests. Eleanor Roosevelt personally engineered the Fischer family’s escape from Russia, and soon after Victor was serving in the United States Army in World War II and fighting opposite his childhood friends in the Russian and German armies. As a young adult, he went on to help shape Alaska’s map by planning towns throughout the state. This unique autobiography recounts Fischer’s earliest days in Germany, Russia, and Alaska, where he soon entered civic affairs and was elected as a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention—the body responsible for establishing statehood in the territory. A move to Washington, DC, and further government appointments allowed him to witness key historic events of his era, which he also recounts here. Finally, Fischer brings his memoir up to the present, describing how he has returned to Russia many times to bring the lessons of Alaska freedom and prosperity to the newly democratic states.

Victor Fischer

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