The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The American Classics Children's Collection (Unabridged)

Mark Twain

feb. 2024 · Sweet Cherry Publishing · Carte narată de Saskia Coomber și Gemma Barder

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An adapted and illustrated edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Huckleberry Finn is desperate for another adventure - but his nasty father returning to steal him and his money away is not what he had in mind. Huck runs away and discovers that a slave, Jim, is also trying to escape the town. The two make good friends - but will they find the freedom that they both desire?

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Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.