Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

About the Book

Beloved for its nostalgic evocation of the Mississippi frontier in the 1840s and for its colorful depiction of an idyll on a raft shared by an orphaned boy and a fugitive slave, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has long been touted as the Great American Novel.

About the Author

Mark Twian (1835-1910), pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is one of America'a best known writers and humorists. His prolific writing career was launched with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in 1865, followed by such major works as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876),The Prince and the Pauper(1882),The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs's Court(1889), ans Pudd'nhead Wilson(1894), as well as numerous travel sketches,journalistic reports, and political essays.