| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Fiction, Classics Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598184911 ISBN-13: 9781598184914 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Huck and Jim come to vivid life in this unabridged edition of Mark Twain's classic tale of life on the Mississippi. Includes a free 3-D model of a raft. Consumable. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 980 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.19 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Twain wrote that Huck was based on Tom Blankenship, a poor white boy he knew in Hannibal, MO. But Shelley Fishkin found an 1874 article where Twain spoke of another boy, ten-year old black servant Jerry. Jerry was "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across," Twain said. He added, "He did not tell me a single remarkable thing, or one that was worth remembering. And yet he was himself so interested in his small marvels, and they flowed so naturally and comfortably from his lips that . . . I listened as one who receives a revelation." "It doesn't really matter whether or not Huck was black. Jim, Huck Finn's friend, was certainly black, and he is one of the most memorable characters in literature. Jim was sometimes referred to as "nigger Jim." Jim has a minstrel quality, but it's hard not to see the irony in his behavior, especially not when he lectures Huck on behaving like white trash. Mark Twain's writing and characters have influenced countless American writers. And no matter how many book-banning campaigns are launched due to the presence of the word "nigger" in Twain's books, particularly "Huckleberry Finn," authors as diverse as Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner have cited Twain as influences." -- from Amy Sterling Casil's Introduction |
Contributor Bio(s): Twain, Mark: - "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel." Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so." |