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Tells the story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river in Missouri over a hundred years ago. The cheerful, adventurous hero plays truant to form a pirate band and, together with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, finds fun and excitement, and buried tr...

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Main Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Other Authors: Dietz, Norman (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [United States] : Recorded Books, LLC, 1987, c1876.
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Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Finn, Huckleberry > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Boys > Travel > Mississippi River > Fiction.
Boys > Missouri > Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Adventure fiction > Missouri.
Humorous stories > Missouri.
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Summary:Tells the story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river in Missouri over a hundred years ago. The cheerful, adventurous hero plays truant to form a pirate band and, together with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, finds fun and excitement, and buried treasure, along the shores of the great river.
Item Description:Unabridged.
First published in 1876 by Recorded Books.
Physical Description:6 sound discs (7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:1419347020
9781419347023
Author Notes: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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