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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Vintage Classics
By: Mark Twain
Paperback | 6 December 2007 | Edition Number 1
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Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom.
Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
About the Author
Mark Twain's real name was Sam Clemens, and he was born in 1835 in a small town on the Mississippi, one of seven children. He smoked cigars at the age of eight, and at age nine he stowed away on a steamboat. He left school at 11 and worked at a grocery store, a bookstore, a blacksmith's and a newspaper, where he was allowed to write his own stories (not all of them true). He then worked on a steamboat, where he got the name 'Mark Twain' (from the call given by the boat's pilot when their boat is in safe waters). Eventually he turned to journalism again, travelled round the world, and began writing books which became very popular. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are his most famous novels. He poured the money he earned from writing into new business ventures and crazy inventions, such as a clamp to stop babies throwing off their bed covers, a new boardgame, and a hand grenade full of extinguishing liquid to throw on a fire. With his shock of white hair and trademark white suit Mark Twain became the most famous American writer in the world. He died in 1910.
Industry Reviews
"The quintessential American novel." - Guardian
"It is Huck who gives the book style. The River gives the book its form. But for the River, the book might be only a sequence of adventures with a happy ending. A river, a very big and powerful river, is the only natural force that can wholly determine the course of human peregrination.... Thus the River makes the book a great book... Mark Twain is a native, and the River God is his God." - T.S. Eliot
"The invention of this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension to our literature. It is a language capable of poetry." - Robert Penn Warren
"Running all through the book is the sharpest satire on the antebellum estimate of the slave." - San Francisco Chronicle
"The perfect novel." - Kate Atkinson
"The invention of this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension to our literature. It is a language capable of poetry." - Robert Penn Warren
"Huckleberry Finn took the first journey back. His eyes were the first eyes that ever looked at us objectively that were not eyes from overseas... he wanted to find out about men and how they lived together. And because he turned back we have him forever." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I believe that Huckleberry Finn is one of the great masterpieces of the world." - H.L. Mencken
ISBN: 9780099511113
ISBN-10: 0099511118
Series: Vintage Classics
Published: 6th December 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 19.9 x 13.2 x 2.1
Weight (kg): 0.24
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