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Author:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.

Title:

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Coveney.

Publisher:

Penguin Classicsan imprint of Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

393 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Boys--Fiction.--Mississippi River--Fiction.
Runaway children--Fiction.
Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Mississippi--Fiction.--Fiction.
Mississippi River--Fiction.
Adventure fiction.

Other Authors:

Coveney, Peter, writer of supplementary textual content. writer of supplementary textual content.

Notes:

First published: 1884. Reissued with new chronology and further reading 2003. Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-394)

Summary:

The tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.

ISBN:

0141199571 (hardcover) :
9780141199573 (hardcover) :

Locations:

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

WPPB215 -- Everly Public Library (Everly)

ESPD725 -- Sibley Public Library (Sibley)