Two Classics from Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - Unabridged

Name: Two Classics from Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - Unabridged
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ISBN: 9798892821971

By Mark Twain & Kevin Theis

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Contained in this volume are two classics from Mark Twain, who is often referred to as the father of American literature.

Twain first introduced Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in his 1876 book, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," which relates the story of Tom and Huck's boyhood, their days ditching school, swimming in the Mississippi River, and, eventually, their involvement in a murder plot.

The first book eventually grew to be so popular that it prompted Twain to create a sequel and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is now considered one of finest America novels ever written. In it, we see Huck escape the clutches of his drunken, avaricious father, fake his own death and light out with escaped slave Jim to get to Illinois, where Jim can enjoy his freedom. "Huck Finn" is considered by many critics to be the Great American Novel.

Two American classics from the country's finest storyteller, these books are presented here in their original and unabridged format.

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About Mark Twain

Mark Twain (1835-1910) was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Hannibal, Missouri, where some of his greatest stories are set. He would become one of the country's best-known authors, is often credited with being the father of American literature and is the author of what many critics call the Great American Novel: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Twain's writing career began when he was working as a typesetter at his brother Orion's newspaper, contributing occasional articles. He also found work as a riverboat pilot and his experiences would later be collected into this book "Life on the Mississippi" (1883). When brother Orion found work assisting the Nevada Territory's governor, Twain traveled West with him and later summarized his experiences in his book "Roughing It" (1872). His first real success came when he penned the short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in 1865. The story gained him international attention and launched his career as a humorist, essayist and, eventually, novelist. Marrying a wealthy socialite, Olivia Langdon, she and Twain originally lived in Buffalo, New York where Twain worked as a printer and editor, but as his writing grew more and more successful, they eventually built a home in Hartford, Connecticut where Twain wrote most of his best-known works. His list of books reads as a top-ten list of American novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). Enormously successful during his lifetime, he lost a great deal of his money in making poor investments, but he not only made it all back (and paid back his creditors) but he managed to again become fabulously wealthy before dying in 1910. Lauded by critics and fellow writers alike, Twain is now considered on the finest novelists in American history and his influence can be felt even today. Ernest Hemingway would later say of Twain: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

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