The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer - Twain, Mark
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"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is not just one of the most brilliant adventure stories ever written but also a wonderfully detailed portrait of nineteenth-century America. "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" follows the exploits of Tom Sawyer's closest friend, Huckleberry 'Huck' Finn, the son of the town drunk, who is placed under the benign guardianship of Widow Douglas. Although life at the widow's house is comfortable, Huck finds the Widow's attempts to 'civilize' him infuriating. And when his abusive father turns up to make trouble, Huck decides he's had enough. He runs away and sets off…mehr

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"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is not just one of the most brilliant adventure stories ever written but also a wonderfully detailed portrait of nineteenth-century America. "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" follows the exploits of Tom Sawyer's closest friend, Huckleberry 'Huck' Finn, the son of the town drunk, who is placed under the benign guardianship of Widow Douglas. Although life at the widow's house is comfortable, Huck finds the Widow's attempts to 'civilize' him infuriating. And when his abusive father turns up to make trouble, Huck decides he's had enough. He runs away and sets off down the Mississippi River. En route, he meets Jim, Widow Douglas' escaped slave, and forges an unlikely friendship with him. As they sail down the river together, they encounter a strange cast of characters - thieves, bandits and feuding families. And when Jim is captured, Huck must enlist the support of his old comrade Tom to rescue his new friend.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so.