The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780141439648
Copyright date: 2003
Description: 'Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft"
Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Daupin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents--of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring frienship with Jim.

This edition uses the text from the first edition of 1884 and includes a new chronology and suggestions for further reading.
(back cover)
Notes: UK/CAN