Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism

Mark Twain · Joseph Pearce

Jan 2009 · Ignatius Press

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Focuses on traditional readings of the classics of world literature. Suitable for tradition-minded literature professors this title offers them an alternative for their students. It helps the reader to achieve a level of critical and literary appreciation befitting the works themselves.

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About the author

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.