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Jap Herron

Emily Grant Hutchings

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015-04-24
主題	Fiction / Classics
ISBN	150550998X9781505509984
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FohvrgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Jap Herron was a novel written, supposedly, by a deceased Mark Twain from beyond the grave, dictated via the medium of a Ouija board. The scribe was Emily Grant Hutchings, a woman who had corresponded with Twain 15 years earlier. In their exchange of letters he had marked one of her letters with the words: Idiot! Must preserve. According to her, she and a woman named Lola Hays began receiving messages from Twain in 1915 when playing around with a Ouija board at a spiritualist meeting. The story itself, a long novelette, is scened in a Missouri town and tells how a lad born to poverty and shiftlessness, by the help of a fine-souled and high-minded man and woman, grew into a noble and useful manhood and helped to regenerate his town. There is evident a rather striking knowledge of the conditions of life and the peculiarities of character in a Missouri town, the dialect is true, and the picture has, in general, many features that will seem familiar to those who know their Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.