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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099511113

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 234g

  • RRP: £5.99

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

'The perfect novel' Kate Atkinson, #1 bestselling author of Big Sky

Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pap, and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099511113

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 234g

  • RRP: £5.99

Reviews

  • All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn...There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since

    Ernest Hemingway

  • The quintessential American novel

    Guardian

  • It is Huck who gives the book style. The River gives the book its form. But for the River, the book might be only a sequence of adventures with a happy ending. A river, a very big and powerful river, is the only natural force that can wholly determine the course of human peregrination.... Thus the River makes the book a great book... Mark Twain is a native, and the River God is his God

    T.S. Eliot

  • The invention of this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension to our literature. It is a language capable of poetry

    Robert Penn Warren

  • Running all through the book is the sharpest satire on the ante-bellum estimate of the slave

    San Francisco Chronicle

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About the Author

Mark Twain

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Mark Twain spent his youth in Hannibal, Missouri, which forms the setting for his two greatest works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Trying his hand at printing, typesetting and then gold-mining, the former steam-boat pilot eventually found his calling in journalism and travel writing. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner, Twain died in 1910 after a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success.

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12 of the best Mark Twain quotes

Mark Twain — real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens — was an American writer and humourist. Famous for writing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, indeed, he is a pioneer of The Great American Novel. Here are 12 of his most brilliant quotes.

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