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<Text id=TwaTomS> <Author>Clemens, Samuel Langhorne; Mark Twain</Author> <Title>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</Title> <Edition>[Prose Works. Selections.] Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1985</Edition> <Date>1876</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>TwaTomS2</locdoc><milestone n=2> <div0 type=chapter n=1> <p> TO <p> MY WIFE <p> <i>This Book is <p> Affectionately Dedicated.</i> </loc><loc><locdoc>TwaTomS3</locdoc><milestone n=3> <p> Preface <p> Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual -- he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture. <p> The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children . . .
