The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Companion)
by Mark Twain
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- In MINT unread condition. Fully-bound in richly colored brown leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine/no dj as issued
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About This Item
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels. The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri (based on the actual town of Hannibal, Missouri), on the shore of the Mississippi River "forty to fifty years ago" (the novel having been published in 1884). Huckleberry "Huck" Finn (the protagonist and first-person narrator) and his friend, Thomas "Tom" Sawyer, have each come...
,'The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written' Collector's Edition. In MINT unread condition. Fully-bound in richly colored brown leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. All Edges Gilt. Golden brown Silk Endpapers. Gold Silk Ribbon Bookmark. Smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Illustratted by Thomas Hart Benton. A beautiful book and a great and memorable gift to give.
Synopsis
Commonly named among the Great American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is generally regarded as the sequel to his earlier novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; however, in Huckleberry Finn, Twain focused increasingly on the institution of slavery and the South. Narrated by Huckleberry “Huck” Finn in Southern antebellum vernacular, the novel gives vivid descriptions of people and daily life along the Mississippi River while following the adventure of Huck and a runaway slave, Jim, rafting their way to freedom.
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- Title
- The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Companion)
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Illustrator
- Thomas Hart Benton
- Book Condition
- Used - In MINT unread condition. Fully-bound in richly colored brown leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Easton Press, 1994,'The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press, Norwalk Connecticut
- Date Published
- (1994)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Christmas Catalog; EASTON PRESS COLLECTION;
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