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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( )
Author: Twain, Mark
Editor: Elliott, Emory
Series title:Oxford World's Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-282441-7
Publication Date:May 1999
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $6.95
Book Description:

Enormously influential in the development of American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains a controversial novel at the center of impassioned critical debate. Set in the deep South before the Civil War, the novel follows Huck Finn--a poor, illiterate white boy--and a slave named Jim as they flee the unhappy circumstances of their lives in a journey down the Mississippi River. Their evolving relationship addresses some of the most profound aspects of the human condition:...
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Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.031 x 7.644 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:0.572 Pounds
Author Biography
Twain, Mark (Author)
Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

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