The strength of Friedrich Nietzsche's interest in the works of Mark Twain has not been sufficiently noted. His “special favorite,” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), has philosophical parallels to the works of Nietzsche's “middle period,” in which he anatomizes the sources of conventional morality.

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