Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Assigned by 4 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1884-1885
- Form
- Novel
- Language
- English
- Length
- Medium · 300 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendAdventures of Huckleberry FinnPenguin Classics, 2014The full text with the original Kemble illustrations and a good introduction; the Norton Critical Edition is the choice for study.
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Huck Finn, the boy from Tom Sawyer, fakes his own death to escape his drunken father and hides on an island in the Mississippi, where he meets Jim, an enslaved man who has run away to avoid being sold. The two float downriver on a raft, meeting feuding families, con men who call themselves the Duke and the King, and a lynch mob, while Huck decides, against everything he has been taught, that he will help Jim escape even if it means going to hell. Tom Sawyer reappears near the end to turn Jim's rescue into a game.
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The catalogue entry above is complete: the dates, the form, the themes and every program that assigns Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are verified against each program's published list.
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