The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Author(s): Mark Twain

Classics

Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.


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A beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Mark Twain's classic novel of the American South

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835. 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. When he started writing in earnest in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain (the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, meaning 'two fathoms'), and a string of highly successful publications followed. 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 he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-four.

General Fields

  • : 9781509827992
  • : PAN MACMILLAN UK
  • : Macmillan Collector's Library
  • : 0.202
  • : April 2017
  • : 156mm X 100mm X 20mm
  • : May 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Mark Twain
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 813/.4