The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

A great American novelist, illustrated by a great American artist - now available in a collectable two-volume set.In 1936, the Heritage Press, a publisher of fine editions, commissioned Norman Roc ...

A great American novelist, illustrated by a great American artist - now available in a collectable two-volume set.In 1936, the Heritage Press, a publisher of fine editions, commissioned Norman Rockwell to illustrate Mark Twain''s Adventures of Tom Sawyer; four years later, they asked him to illustrate The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as well. For each book, Rockwell created eight full-colour paintings and numerous pen-and-ink drawings, the product of extensive on-the-ground research in Twain''s hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Famously, Rockwell even tried to buy some Hannibal residents'' old