by Mark Twain · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194229760
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«Huckleberry Finn» is Mark Twain's adventure novel adapted for English learners, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (64 pages, in English).
The story follows Huck, a boy who flees the orderly life imposed on him, and Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Their journey is marked by encounters with other characters and by the search for freedom, which tests their friendship. This edition belongs to the Oxford Bookworms Library collection and is adapted with controlled vocabulary to make reading easier for English learners.
It is part of the Oxford Bookworms Library series, level 2, with a vocabulary of 700 words. The adaptation is by Diane Mowat, with Jennifer Bassett and Tricia Hedge as series editors.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language aged 14 and over who want to read classics adapted to their reading level.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
