Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

By Twain, Mark

Book Id: WPLBN0002951725
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File Size: 288.57 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Author:	Twain, Mark
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Language:	English
Subject:	Adventure, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Historic Publication Date:	1885
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Twain, B. M., & Clemens, S. (1885). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry Huck Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing a Southern antebellum society that was already anachronistic at the time, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.The book has been popular with young readers since its publication and is taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics. The book was criticized upon release because of its coarse language, and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur, nigger.

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Adventure, Fiction, Humor, Literature