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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn : Penguin Clothbound Classics: Design By Coralie Bickford-smith
Hardback Edition: 1
Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway
slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.
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Pages : 400
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Publication date : 2013-10-13
Subjects: Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Historical Fiction