The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Large Print Book Company, Oct 28, 2009 - Fiction - 369 pages

Twain's first sequel to Tom Sawyer, it is the story of the adventures of Tom's friend Huck Finn and the escaped slave Jim as they flee down the Mississippi in mid-19th century America.

About the author

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout 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, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; American authors series; World classics in large print ; American authors series; World classics in large print
• Author: Mark Twain
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: Large Print Book Company, 2009
• ISBN: 1596881283, 9781596881280
• Length: 369 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Friendship; Fiction / General; Fiction / Southern