The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - (Illustrated Classics) by Mark Twain (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- To break free from his father and society's constraints, Huckleberry Finn makes a dash towards freedom and independence.
- 8-12 Years
- 7.9" x 5.3" Hardcover
- 240 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Classics
- Series Name: Illustrated Classics
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Book Synopsis
To break free from his father and society's constraints, Huckleberry Finn makes a dash towards freedom and independence. On his journey, he meets Jim, who is fleeing enslavement. Together, they travel down the Mississippi River. Pick up this beautifully illustrated book to join Huck and Jim on their adventures as they battle bigotry with courage, and dream for a hopeful world.Review Quotes
"Huckleberry Finn is now read as a key to the very essence of the American imagination, a central document of our most primitive impulses." . . . Mark Twain was the quintessential American writer, quintessential because was more or less untutored--'a natural, ' as Wright Morris puts it, 'who learned to write the way a river pilot learns the feel of a channel.'" - Norman Podhoretz, New York Times, 1959 -- Norman Podhoretz (New York Times 1959)
"The best book we've had ... There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." -- Ernest Hemingway
"Truly an American odyssey. . . . It need not be stressed that Mark Twain re-created a full sense of life on the Mississippi. This is undisputed. He wrote with ease and buoyancy; there is humor, sensibility and beauty in his style. But there is real penetration, too. He evokes an entire epoch, which takes on organic shape, form, solidarity, depth." -- The New York Times
About the Author
Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, publisher, lecturer and entrepreneur. He is said to be one of the greatest humorists that America has had. He shot to fame with an article called, " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", published in 1865 in his brother's newspaper. He is perhaps best known for, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published in 1876. He wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as its sequel in 1884. Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and died a day after its next appearance, just as he had predicted.
