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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Mark Twain
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a quintessential American novel chronicling the journey of a boy navigating the Mississippi River. It captures a turbulent yet hopeful period in American history through a satirical and authentic narrative that explores the experience of a nation.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This classic adventure appeals to readers interested in American history, literary heritage, and coming-of-age tales, as well as those studying the cultural and social contexts of Twain's era.

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Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live.

This edition features a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen that situates the novel for a contemporary audience, and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of The Republic of Imagination.

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Possibly the worthiest contender for the title of The Great American Novel, this perennial bestseller is updated with a new introduction by Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen.

The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination.

In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's The 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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Esteemed author Ernest Hemingway hailed the book as the foundation of modern American literature, stating, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143107323

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 November 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 368

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Mark Twain Penguin Books Penguin Classics

About the Author

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Mark Twain spent his youth in Hannibal, Missouri. Trying his hand at printing, typesetting and gold-mining, he eventually found his calling in journalism and travel writing. Twain died in 1910 after a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success. R. Kent Rasmussen has written nine books on Twain and more than a dozen other books.

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