The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$18.18
- Hardcover
360 pages
- Release Date
30 May 2017
Summary
Rather than be ‘sivilized’ by the Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn - the grubby but good-natured son of a local drunk - sets off with Jim, an escaped slave, to find freedom on the Mississippi river. With the law on their tail, they navigate a world of robbers, slave hunters and con men, and Huck must choose between what society says is ‘right’ and his own burgeoning understanding of Jim’s friendship and humanity.
Nostalgic and melancholy in equal measure, The Adventures of Huckleberry …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509827992 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509827994 |
| Author: | Mark Twain, Peter Harness |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 103mm x 158mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Audience Age: | 8-11 |
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri - a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. When he started writing in earnest in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain (the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, meaning ‘two fathoms’), and a string of highly successful publications followed. His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-four.
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