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  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099572978
  • Imprint: Vintage Children's Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $21.00

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn




Sail down the Mississippi with rascally Huck Finn!

'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them'

Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. And wouldn't you know, Huck's no-good Pap is also after him and he locks Huck up in his cabin in the woods. But Huck won't stand too much of this, and after a daring escape, he takes off down the Mississppi on a raft with an runaway slave called Jim. But plenty of dangers wait for them along the river - will they survive and win their freedom?

BACKSTORY: Discover how to write secret messages in code, and learn about the extraordinary Mark Twain.

  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099572978
  • Imprint: Vintage Children's Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $21.00

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Selected Poetry
Venus in Furs
Man and Superman
Military Dispatches
The Prelude

About the author

Mark Twain

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Mark Twain spent his youth in Hannibal, Missouri, which forms the setting for his two greatest works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Trying his hand at printing, typesetting and then gold-mining, the former steam-boat pilot eventually found his calling in journalism and travel writing. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner, Twain died in 1910 after a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success.

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