The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Arcturus Classics) - Softcover

Mark Twain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178599624X ISBN 13: 9781785996245

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

To escape from his violent and drunken father, a 13-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Huckleberry Finn, fakes his own death and floats away on a raft down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave. In a series of unforgettable adventures narrated by Huck, they encounter a cross-section of characters from slave-hunters, and conmen to feuding aristocrats. This was the first major American novel to be written in the vernacular, a dark and funny satire that exposes the bigotry and hypocrisy of provincial America during Mark Twain's lifetime.

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Review:

A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and elicits controversy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought to be lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a fuller understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.

Review:

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn --Ernest Hemingway

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 178599624X
• ISBN 13: 9781785996245
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320