Tom Sawyer
though many critics would say Huckleberry Finn, while others declare his Life on the Mississippi the greatest of the three, and one of the permanent things in American literature. They are really three in a great trilogy—the story of his own life in the Mississippi Valley, of a time now gone but which still has mightily to do with the times that now are, and that are to be.
Before closing this short list, may I be allowed to hold open the door to the library a moment longer, just to glance at a few more titles? There I see