by Mark Twain · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140623185
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«Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» is Mark Twain's adventure novel, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Young Huck Finn flees civilisation and the return of his drunken father. On his way he meets Jim, a runaway slave, and together they travel down the Mississippi River in search of a free life. Living with Jim and the characters they encounter confronts Huck with the hypocrisy and morality of the Southern society of his time.
2007 edition from the Penguin Popular Classics collection; the novel originally appeared in 1884 in the United Kingdom and in 1885 in the United States.
For readers who want to read a classic of American literature in its original English version.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
