by Mark Twain · Verbo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722218191
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«Huckleberry Finn» is Mark Twain's adventure novel, published by Verbo in paperback (212 pages, in Portuguese).
Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, travel down the Mississippi River on a raft and encounter feuding families, con men posing as nobles, and situations that test the young protagonist's conscience. The novel combines adventure with a satire of nineteenth-century American society.
It belongs to the «Adventures of Tom and Huck» series, of which it is the second instalment. The work was originally published in 1885 and this Verbo edition dates from 1997.
Recommended for young readers, within the «Clásicos Juveniles» collection, as a gateway to the classics of American literature.
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.
