by Mark Twain · Puffin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140350074
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«The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» is Mark Twain's adventure novel, published by Puffin Classics in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Huck Finn, a fourteen-year-old boy, fakes his own death to escape his father and civilization. On his raft journey down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway slave, they experience all kinds of adventures. Twain portrays Southern society and raises themes such as freedom, friendship, and racism.
Second installment of the «Adventures of Tom and Huck» series. The work was originally published in 1885, and this edition dates from 1983.
A recommended read for young people and students, and also for adults who want to rediscover a classic 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.
