Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Genres fictionclassicshistorical fictionliteratureadventureyoung adultschoolnovelsamericanhigh school

266 pages, Paperback

First published February 18,1884

Series

Adventures of Tom and Huck

Places

the united states of america, st. petersburg missouri, hannibal missouri, missouri, mississippi river,

This edition

Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Published: November 12, 2009 by Hungry Minds
ISBN: 9780764587276
ASIN: 0764587277
Language: English

Characters More characters

Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn is 12 or 13 years old at the time of the events in "Tom Sawyer" and would be a year older in "Huckleberry Finn". He is ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had a good heart. Huck is the son of a vagrant drunkard. He enjoys lazin...
Tom Sawyer

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Jim Upton

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Mark Twain

An American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, ar...

About the author

mark twain

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.