Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain, Mark
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"That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it." -Huckleberry Finn (1885) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884/1885), a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, is one of the Great American Novels. It tells the story about Huckleberry Finn, who together with the slave Jim, runs away from his abusive father and makes a trip down the Mississippi River on a raft. It offers a colorful description of pre-Civil War society in the American South with its people and places along the Mississippi. This book is no stranger to…mehr

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"That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it." -Huckleberry Finn (1885) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884/1885), a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, is one of the Great American Novels. It tells the story about Huckleberry Finn, who together with the slave Jim, runs away from his abusive father and makes a trip down the Mississippi River on a raft. It offers a colorful description of pre-Civil War society in the American South with its people and places along the Mississippi. This book is no stranger to controversy, when upon its publication it was criticized for its rough language, and during the 20th century for using racial stereotypes. Nevertheless, Ernest Hemingway said: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain, called Huckleberry Finn." This jacketed hardcover replica of the original 1885 edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble, has remained popular with many readers, young and old.
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Mark Twain was America's foremost novelist, journalist, and satirist who has been hailed as the "father of American literature. And he was also an accomplished travel writer. Born in Missouri in 1835 as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he spent his early years as a Mississippi River pilot and as a prospector in Nevada before he settled in California. He wrote his first travel book, "The Innocents Abroad," after an 1867 trip to Palestine. After his second trip to Europe, which took him (and his family) to Germany for the first time, he wrote "A Tramp Abroad." His third trip abroad brought the family to Berlin, from October 1891 to March 1892, first in a tenement in the district of Tiergarten, later in a posh hotel Unter den Linden. Twain was invited to Berlin salons and socialized with Prussian royalty, including the Kaiser. However, he suffered from rheumatism, so he never wrote a book about Berlin, even though he pondered many ideas. He did write a number of shorter pieces, as well as the first chapter of a novel, most of it unpublished up to today. He also met one of his future friends in Berlin, Rudolf Lindau, a well-traveled novelist and Bismarck's press secretary. Eventually, the family would move to Vienna and Italy. Twain embarked on a world tour to pay off his debts. He returned to upstate New York in 1900, where he died ten years later.