by Mark Twain · Evans Brothers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780237540883
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«Huckleberry Finn» is Mark Twain's adventure novel in an abridged version by Pauline Francis, published in paperback by Evans Brothers Ltd.
It tells the story of Huckleberry Finn, friend of Tom Sawyer, who travels down the Mississippi River on a raft with Jim, a runaway slave, on a journey in search of freedom. This edition offers the classic in an abridged and illustrated narrative, lively and accessible, within the Essential Classics series.
The original work was published in 1884; this English edition has 56 pages and was published in 2013.
For young readers and students of English seeking a first encounter with the classics of literature.
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.
