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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Puffin Books, 1994.
Subjects:	Mississippi River > Young adult fiction. Missouri > Young adult fiction.
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Summary:	Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Physical Description:	386 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:	0140390464
Author Notes:	Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental -- and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature." John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Mark Twain at the Movies , Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Literature , Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early Republic , Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock , and War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism . He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.