Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain, Mark
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"That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it." -Huckleberry Finn (1885) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884/1885), a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, is one of the Great American Novels. It tells the story about Huckleberry Finn, who together with the slave Jim, runs away from his abusive father and makes a trip down the Mississippi River on a raft. It offers a colorful description of pre-Civil War society in the American South with its people and places along the Mississippi. This book is no stranger to…mehr

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"That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it." -Huckleberry Finn (1885) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884/1885), a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, is one of the Great American Novels. It tells the story about Huckleberry Finn, who together with the slave Jim, runs away from his abusive father and makes a trip down the Mississippi River on a raft. It offers a colorful description of pre-Civil War society in the American South with its people and places along the Mississippi. This book is no stranger to controversy, when upon its publication it was criticized for its rough language, and during the 20th century for using racial stereotypes. Nevertheless, Ernest Hemingway said: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain, called Huckleberry Finn." This jacketed hardcover replica of the original 1885 edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble, has remained popular with many readers, young and old.
Autorenporträt
Mark Twain (30 November 1835- 21 April 1910) was born in Florida, United States. He was a Humorist, author, and lecturer. He grew up in Hannibal and later moved to California. In a California mining camp, he heard the story that he published in 1865 and made popular as the title story of his first novel, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, in 1867. From his humorous stories, The Innocents Abroad (1869) and Roughing It in 1872, to his appearance as a riverboat captain in Life on the Mississippi in 1883, through his adventure stories of childhood, he got a worldwide audience, mainly for Tom Sawyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn (1885), known as the masterpieces of American fiction. The ironic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1889. His eldest daughter passed away in 1896, his wife in 1904, and another daughter in 1909. He expressed his depression about the human character in such late works as the after-death published Letters from the Earth (1962).