Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

mark twain patrick fraley

In preparation for his audiobook recording of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, award-winning narrator Patrick Fraley worked with the assistant director of the University of California, Berkeley Mark Twain project to study the author's intent. Just as Mark Twain is a genius in capturing the American experience, so is Fraley in capturing the voices of that experience.

Genres fictionclassicshistorical fictionliteratureadventureyoung adultschoolnovelsamericanhigh school

10 pages, Audio CD

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: 10 pages, Audio CD
Published: September 18, 2003 by BBC Audiobooks America
ISBN: 9781572703285
ASIN: 1572703288
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.