The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain.
Edition: printing (3)
Series: Courage Classics
Publisher: Courage Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780894718809
Copyright date: 1986
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: The scruffy son of the town drunkard and a ragged runaway black slave—what an unlike y pair of literary heroes! And yet when Huck Finn and his chance companion Jim make a break for freedom down the vast Mississippi River on a makeshift raft, they begin one of the greatest epic journeys of all time. As we follow their adventures along the river's banks, we watch the entire range of human experience unfold, seen through Huck's simple, clear, honest eyes as he himself grows rapidly from a boy's innocence to a man's deep wisdom of life. Written by a comic master at the height of his powers, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been called the first truly great, truly American novel. Uproariously funny, scathingly satiric, tender, humane, and nostalgic, it is that rare thing—a serious, complex novel that is also a rollicking good read.
--front flap