The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London, Puffin Books, 1988. ISBN: 0140350071
Sehr guter Zustand. Besitzername auf dem Vorsatz. - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Considered as the Great American Novel, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The work has been popular with readers since its publication and is taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger".[2][3] ... wikipedia-org-wiki-Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn Aus: wikipedia-org , ISBN-13: 9780140350074

27. Auflage. 281 Seiten. 18 cm. Taschenbuch. Kartoniert.

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Mark Twain (Author), Thomas Cooley (Ed.) Illustrator: NA: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, (A Norton Critical Edition), Third Edition, W.W. Norton & Company/Viva Books 2010 ISBN: 9780393966404

New Softcover NA This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition reprints for the first time the definitive Iowa-California text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley. The text is accompanied by explanatory annotations. "Contexts and Sources" provides readers with a rich selection of documents related to the historical background, language, composition, sale, reception, and newly discovered first half of the manuscript of Mark TwainaEUR s greatest work. Included are letters on the writing of the novel, excerpts from the authoraEUR s autobiography, samples of bad poetry that inspired his satire (including an effort by young Sam Clemens himself), a section on the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by schools and libraries over a hundred-year period, and commentary by David Carkeet on dialects of the book and by Earl F. Briden on its "racist" illustrations. In addition, this section reprints the full texts of both "Sociable Jimmy," upon which is based the controversial theory that Huck speaks in a "black voice," and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It," the first significant attempt by Mark Twain to capture the speech of an African American in print. "Criticism" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is divided into "Early Responses" (including the first negative review) and "Modern Views" by Victor A. Doyno, T. S. Eliot, Jane Smiley, David L. Smith, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (the "black voice" thesis), James R. Kincaid (a rebuttal of Fishkin), and David R. Sewell. Also included is Toni MorrisonaEUR s moving personal "Introduction" to the troubling experience of reading and re-reading Mark TwainaEUR s masterpiece. "A Chronology and Selected Bibliography" are also included. Contents: Civilizing huck aEUR" Miss Watson aEUR" Tom sawyer waits aEURc The boys escape jim aEUR" Tom sawyeraEUR s gang aEUR" Deep-laid plans aEURc A good going over aEUR" Grace triumphant aEUR" "One of tom sawyeraEUR s lies" aEURc Huck and judge aEUR" superstition A HuckaEUR s father aEUR" The fond parent aEUR" Reform aEURc He went for judge thatcher aEUR" Huck decides to leave aEUR" political economy aEUR" Thrashing around aEURc Laying for him aEUR" locked in the cabin aEUR" Sinking the body aEUR" Resting aEURc Sleeping in the woods aEUR" raising the dead aEUR" exploring the island aEUR" finding jim aEUR" JimaEUR s escape aEUR" sings aEUR" "Balum" aEURc The cave aEUR" The floating house aEURc The find aEUR" old hunk Bunker aEUR" in disguise aEURc Huck and the woman The search aEUR" Prevarication aEUR" Going to Goshen aEURc Slow navigation aEUR" Borrowing things aEUR" boarding the wreck- The plotters aEUR" hunting for the boat aEURc Escaping form the wreck aEUR" the watchman aEUR" sinking aEURc A general good time aEUR" The harem - French aEURc The doctor aEUR" Uncle silas aEUR" Sister Hotchkiss aEUR" Aunt sally in trouble aEURc Tom sawyer wounded aEUR" The doctoraEUR s story aEUR" Tom confesses aEUR" Aunt polly arrives aEUR" "Hand out them letters" aEURc Out of bondage aEUR" Paying the captive aEUR" Yours truly, huck finn Printed Pages: 416. 3rd edition

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Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, (Level 4) Orient Blackswan
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) tells us the story of Huckleberry Finn, known to his friends as Huck, whom we first meet in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. After being adopted by Widow Douglas, Huck tries very hard to lead a civilised life, but has to contend with his brutal father. Fed up with his father's cruelty he runs away. Soon he meets up with old Jim, a runaway slave. They decide to raft down the Mississippi River and they have the wildest adventures on the way. The brilliant description of the Mississippi is from Twain's own experiences as a steam-boat pilot. The sensitive portrayal of Huck and Jim, the hilarious crudity of the duke and the king and the staging of the 'Nonesuch' play, are but a few elements that make it one of the world's greatest books. ISBN-9788125022084

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Mark Twain Illustrator: NA: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Peacock/ Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. 2008 ISBN: 9788124800447

New Softcover NA Rated among the great works of American fiction, Twain s classics paint an unforgettable picture of Mississippi frontier life, and combine picaresque adventure with challenging satire and great technical innovative power. It is really a great fun to look back at our own childhood as we relive Tom s romantic exploits through his eyes and our own in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom, an universally recognisable classic literary hero, is an intelligent and imaginative boy who is nevertheless careless and mischievous. He along with his friend Huck Finn accidently witnesses a murder for which an innocent man is wrongly accused. Together they succeed in revealing the truth, but now the real murderer is after their life. From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the hunt for the treasure that Joe had buried, the novel is simply superb, readable and full of surprises. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a brilliant satire on racism, giving a taste of American life in the late 19th century, is equally interesting. Tired of the endless constraints of the so-called civilized society , Huck teams with runaway slave Jim. As they ride their raft down the current, they encounter many challenges. Having been taught that helping a Black, runaway slave is a sin unimaginable, Huck faces a harrowing choice between the social norm and the person who needs him the most. Owing to its wonderful story, filled with plenty of action, youthful innocence and backwoods charm, and twists and turns in the plot, reader won t be able to put this book down before its completion Printed Pages: 544. First edition

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