by Mark Twain · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430189
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«The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» is Mark Twain's adventure novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (400 pages, in English).
The novel follows Huck Finn, a boy who runs away from his town and meets Jim, a runaway slave; together they float down the Mississippi on a raft. Twain uses humor, satire and vernacular speech to portray the freedom, racism and moral conscience of his era.
Second installment of the «Adventures of Tom and Huck» series, with introduction and editing by Peter Coveney.
Can be read from age 10; it is common reading in high schools and also appeals to adults who want to rediscover a classic.
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.
