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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The adventures of a boy growing up in half-settled Missouri in the 1840's, who with a runaway slave floated down the Mississippi on a raft.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Other Authors:	Parker, Tom
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	Ashland, OR : Blackstone Audiobooks, p1997.
Subjects:	Finn, Huckleberry > (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Mississippi River > Juvenile fiction. Fugitive slaves > Juvenile fiction. Male friendship > Juvenile fiction. Missouri > Juvenile fiction. Boys > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	The adventures of a boy growing up in half-settled Missouri in the 1840's, who with a runaway slave floated down the Mississippi on a raft.
Item Description:	Unabridged. Compact discs.
Physical Description:	8 sound discs (9.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:	0786180374 9780786180370
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. (Bowker Author Biography)