EXCITING! Lost Story By Mark Twain Will Be Finished

Many authors have sadly passed away with unfinished stories, including Mark Twain. Thanks to an author and an illustrator, however, a lost story of Twain’s is about to come to life.

Twain is perhaps most famous for his book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. While reading to his daughters in a Paris hotel, he began to take notes for The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine. He died before he could write the whole story.

Author Phillip Stead will be finishing the story and Erin Stead will provide the illustrations. While it’s about a young boy named Johnny who has some magical seeds, it will be geared towards readers of all ages.

Twain spent a lot of time writing at his home in Elmira, New York called Quarry Farm. One of his favorite places to put pen to paper was in this gazebo on the property.

While the house itself is only open to students at Elmira College in the Mark Twain Studies program, you can get a tour online. For a 360 view of Quarry Farm, click here.

Here’s an outside shot of the farm.

A closer view of his breathtaking home.

Penguin Random House will publish The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine this fall.

Feature Image: Screenshot Via Twitter 

H/T: Time