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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Everyman's Library)
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Everyman's Library) Hardcover - 1991

by Twain, Mark

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  • Title Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Everyman's Library)
  • Author Twain, Mark
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 600
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
  • Date 1991-11-26
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00P46E_ns
  • ISBN 9780679405849 / 0679405844
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.28 x 5.19 x 1.27 in (21.03 x 13.18 x 3.23 cm)
  • Reading level 560
  • Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, Humorous stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91053010
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

From the rear cover

A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Beckey Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.

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“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn . . . All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” –Ernest Hemingway

“As characters Tom and Huck have become American myths (a form of transubstantiation achieved by remarkably few fictional creations in the last hundred years), and that very fact indicates that whatever distinctions are made between the two novels, and however many reservations are cited about either or both, Twain possessed extraordinary imaginative power.” –from the Introduction by Miles Donald

About the author

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, led one of the most exciting of literary lives. Raised in the river town of Hannibal, Missouri, Twain had to leave school at age 12 and was successively a journeyman printer, a steamboat pilot, a halfhearted Confederate soldier, and a prospector, miner, and reporter in the western territories. His experiences furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity, as well as with the perfect grasp of local customs and speech which manifests itself in his writing.

With the publication in 1865 of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Twain gained national attention as a frontier humorist, and the bestselling Innocents Abroad solidified his fame. But it wasn't until Life on the Mississippi (1883), and finally, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce.

Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more pessimistic--an outlook not alleviated by his natural skepticism and sarcasm. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale & Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--Twain spent his last years in gloom and exasperation, writing fables about "the damned human race."