The adventures of Huckleberry Finn /
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
- Large print ed.
- Sanbornville, N.H. : Large Print Book Co., 2010.
- 369 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
- World classics in large print ; American authors series. .
First published in 1876.
First published in 1884 as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), this novel is commonly recognized as one of the Great American Novels. It is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, both available in a single Large Print edition). The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that was already out of date by the time the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.
9781596881280
Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)--Fiction. Runaway children--Fiction. Male friendship--Fiction. Large type books.
Mississippi River--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.