Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain ; edited with an introduction and notes by Emory Elliott.
Contributors: Elliott, Emory, 1942-
Edition: Reissued edition (3)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780199536559
Subjects: Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Runaway children -- Fiction; Male friendship -- Fiction; Fugitive slaves -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Mississippi River -- Fiction; Missouri -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. 

So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white boy living in America's deep South before the Civil War, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of Huck's escape from his brutal father and the relationship that grows between him and Jim, the slave who is fleeing from an even more brutal oppression. As they journey down the Mississippi their adventures address some of the most profound human conundrums: the prejudices of class, age, and colour are pitted against the qualities of hope, courage, and moral character.

Enormously influential in the development of American literature, Huckleberry Finn remains a controversial novel at the centre of impassioned critical debate. This edition discusses all the current issues and the evolution of Mark Twain's penetrating genius.
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xlviii]-l).