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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished,...

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Main Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
Series:Penguin classics.
Subjects:
Finn, Huckleberry > (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Runaway children > Juvenile fiction.
Male friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Fugitive slaves > Juvenile fiction.
Race relations > Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi River > Juvenile fiction.
Missouri > Juvenile fiction.
Boys > Juvenile fiction.
Adventure fiction > Juvenile.
Humorous fiction > Juvenile.
Coming-of-age fiction > Juvenile.
Action and adventure fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in American history, defining the experience of a nation in voices often satirical, but always authentic"--Provided by publisher.
Item Description:"First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, 1884. USA by Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885."--Title page verso.
Physical Description:xlvi, 345 pages : map ; 20 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-345).
ISBN:1481403753 (hardcover)
9781481403757 (hardcover)
9780143107323 (paperback)
0143107321 (paperback)
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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