The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

mark twain guy cardwell e.w. kemble john seelye walter trier

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.

Genres fictionclassicshistorical fictionliteratureadventureyoung adultschoolnovelshigh schoolamerican

327 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: 327 pages, Paperback
Published: December 31, 2002 by Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780142437179
ASIN: 0142437174
Language: English

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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

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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.