March 2012 Guest Editor Alan Bradley on Mark Twain...
The book. Ernest Hemingway wrote, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.'” I believe he was understating the case. It was a family copy of Huckleberry Finn that first put my feet on the road to being a writer. Its glories have never dimmed.
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Set in pre-Civil War Missouri and traversing the Mississippi River region, Twain's sequel to his picaresque novel 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' follows Huck as he stages his own death to escape his alcoholic father and sets off on an odyssey marked by comedy, danger, and adventure. He soon meets Jim, the enslaved man working for Huck's erstwhile guardians, the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. Jim had run away after overhearing the ladies discuss selling him, and Huck and Jim set sail on a raft down the Mississippi, headed for the Free State of Illinois. Twain's piquant humour finds full expression in this 19th-century literary classic, and Huck's frank, boyish narration, told in the vernacular of his time, offers true merriment. But despite Twain's disavowal, the story's moral centre becomes inarguably apparent when Jim is caught and Huck vows to help his friend escape.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is available in Hardback, Paperback
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain and published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics an imprint of HarperCollins
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has 352 pages
Yes it is part of Harper Perennial Modern Classics series
£11.69
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