Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain’s authorized biographer, retells the life for young readers: the Clemens family, summers on Uncle John Quarles’s farm, the boyhood that became Tom Sawyer, printing apprenticeship, learning the Mississippi as a pilot, and the long road through the West to world fame.
A warm, reliable introduction to Twain’s life by the man who knew him best in his last years. Download the free EPUB.