The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$19.92
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2003
Summary
Mark Twain’s witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney.
Mark Twain’s story of a boy’s journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken, abusive ‘Pap’ and the ‘sivilizing’ Widow Douglas with runaway …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141439648 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141439645 |
| Author: | Mark Twain, Peter Coveney |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2003 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Mark Twain
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. He trained as a river-boat pilot, but turned to journalism after the Civil War, and published his first short story in 1865. He is also the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Peter Coveney was Senior Lecturer in History at Nottingham University and edited George Eliot’s Felix Holt for Penguin Classics.
Richard Maxwell is Professor of English at Valparaiso University.
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