The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri - a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years - during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence - he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five. Klappentext The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn began life as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer but is now seen in its own right as one of the most important of all American novels. Rather than be 'sivilized' by the Widow Douglas! Huckleberry Finn and Jim! an escaped slave! set off to find freedom on the Mississippi. Their adventures teach them much about the society in which they live! and the book combines an exuberant sense of nostalgia with subtle undertones of adult melancholy. Zusammenfassung The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn began life as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer but is now seen in its own right as one of the most important of all American novels. Rather than be 'sivilized' by the Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, an escaped slave, set off to find freedom on the Mississippi. Their adventures teach them much about the society in which they live, and the book combines an exuberant sense of nostalgia with subtle undertones of adult melancholy. With an Afterword by Peter Harness. ...

Product details

• Authors: Mark Twain
• Assisted by: Peter Harness (Introduction)
• Publisher: Collector's Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.2004
• EAN: 9781904633464
• ISBN: 978-1-904633-46-4
• No. of pages: 359
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 158 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Satire, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Satirical fiction and parodies, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Southeastern & South Atlantic States, US South: South Atlantic States, Adventure / action fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary