Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
ISBN: 9781593081126
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Published: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Publisher Description:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars

• Biographies of the authors

• Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events

• Footnotes and endnotes

• Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work

• Comments by other famous authors

• Study questions to challenge the readers viewpoints and expectations

• Bibliographies for further reading

• Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the only one of Mark Twains various books which can be called a masterpiece. I do not suggest that it is his only book of permanent interest; but it is the only one in which his genius is completely realized, and the only one which creates its own category. T. S. Eliot

Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypical American maverick.

Fleeing the respectable society that wants to sivilize him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi