An illustrated edition of Twain's classic tale of a boy's escape down the Mississippi River
The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Reproductions of the original illustrations from the 1885 first edition highlight a new edition, featuring detailed annotations on the text and the era, of Twain's story about a boy and a runaway slave who travel down the Misssippi.
A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.
Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.
It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River.
The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri , on the shore of the Mississippi River sometime in the later decades prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books ...
The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the shore of the Mississippi.
the adventures of huckleberry finn This book includes summary, character list, themes etc., for better reading experience.
Enriched eBook Features Editor R. Kent Rasmussen provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic: * Chronology * Filmography and Stills from the 1920 Silent Film Huckleberry Film * Contemporary Reviews ...