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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
About The Author
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri in 1835, grew up in the river town of Hannibal. He worked as a printer, a Mississippi steamboat pilot, a silver miner and a newspaper reporter before his humorous sketches made him famous. Celebrated as the father of American literature, he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and became the most beloved lecturer and satirist of his age.
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The Book Synopsis
Escaping a violent father and the polite cruelty of town life, young Huck Finn fakes his own death and flees down the Mississippi on a raft. He is joined by Jim, an enslaved man running toward freedom.
Through feuding families, swindling con men and riverside towns, the two forge a friendship that forces Huck to question everything society taught him. A sharp, funny and fearless novel that Ernest Hemingway said all modern American literature comes from.
Adventure & Satire
The river novel that taught America to hear its own voice.
Few books have travelled as far as the raft Huck Finn pushes off from the Missouri shore. Written in the plain, vivid speech of a boy from the river towns, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn broke with the polished prose of its day and proved that American vernacular could carry great literature.
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