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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE)
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- GOOD
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1923. Hardcover. GOOD. Worth Brehm. Sunning to spine. Shaken. Moderate scuffing to paste-on illustration and board extremities. Corners nudged and edges frayed. Gilt lettering to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. Color paste-on illustration on front. Color illustration of Huck Finn to frontispiece. 12 additional black and white illustrations. Clean, tight. 421 pp. Nice reading copy. One of the Great American Novels. The story is told in the first person using vernacular English of the era and region. Huck finds that being "civilized" is confining and escapes from his guardian with the help of his friend, Tom Sawyer. Circumstances reunite him with his shiftless father, "Pap" and Huck finds himself under Pap's custody and leaves town with him only to face more unknown adventures.
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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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86074
- Title
- THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE)
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Illustrator
- Worth Brehm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- American novel, dialects, Tom Sawyer, racism, Uncle Silas
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- Gilt
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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- Fiction & Literature Action & Adventure
- Fiction & Literature Fiction by Region American Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Classic Literature
- Fiction & Literature Individual Authors Mark Twain
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- Children & Juvenile Juvenile & Young Adult Juvenile Fiction & Literature Juvenile Classics
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