The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain ; with an introduction by John Seelye ; notes by Guy Cardwell.
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TextSeries: Penguin classics deluxe editionPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2009.Description: xxxiii, 327 pages : map ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780143105947
- 0143105949
- Huckleberry Finn
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Main Library | Fiction | Twain, Mark | Checked out | 06/01/2024 | 33111008826337 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The classic boyhood adventure tale in a beautiful Deluxe Edition illustrated by Lilli Carre
Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.
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"First published In Great Britain by Chatto & Windus 1884. First published in the United States of America by Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885"--Title page verso.
"Edition with an introduction by John Seelye published in Penguin Books (U.K.) 1985. Published in Penguin Books (U.S.A.) 1986. Edition with notes by Guy Cardwell [first] published in Penguin Books (U.S.A.) 2003"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxiii).
A feisty young boy fakes his own death to escape his abusive father and heads off down the Mississippi River with his newfound friend Jim, a runaway slave.