Mark Twain & George MacDonald: The Salty & the Sweet
“Both SIR GIBBIE and HUCKLEBERRY FINN explore questions of ethics & truth through the life of an unusually bright & unusually unfortunate boy […] and they have at least twenty plot elements in common.”
—Kathryn Lindskoog explores the connections between the works of George MacDonald & Mark Twain.
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Mark Twain and George MacDonald: The Salty and the Sweet
From The Mark Twain Journal, Volume 30, Number 2 (published August 1994) The unknown connection between two of C. S. Lewis’s favorite books, Sir Gibbie and Huckleberry Finn.Kathryn Lindskoog (Discovery Institute)
