The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Macmillan, 1989 M08 15 - 300 pages

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

This edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn includes a Preface, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Keith Neilson.

Breezy, outrageous, thrilling from first page to last, Huckleberry Finn is the most widely read and universally loved work in American fiction. It is also the most imitated. "All modern American literature," according to Ernest Hemingway, "comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

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Contents

WE AMBUSCADE THE ARABS
10
PAP STARTS IN ON A NEW LIFE
18
20022
30
WHAT COMES OF HANDLIN SNAKESKIN
52
BETTER Let Blame Well Alone
63
HONEST Loot from the Walter SCOTT
70
WAS SOLOMON WISE?
76
THE RATTLESNAKESKIN DOES ITS WORK
86
THE DUKE AND THE DAUPHIN COME ABOARD
117
WHAT ROYALTY DID TO PARKVILLE
126
AN ARKANSAW DIFFICULTY
135
WHY THE LYNCHING BEE FAILED
145
THE ORNERINESS OF KINGS
151
THE KING TURNS PARSON
157
ALL FULL OF TEARS AND FLAPDOODLE
163
OVERREACHING DONT
186

THE GRANGERFORDS TAKE ME
95
WHY HARNEY RODE AWAY FOR HIS
104
THE GOLD SAVES THE THIEVES
205
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About the author (1989)

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer for a time, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled in the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner, Gilded Age in 1873. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi (1883), and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

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