Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Twain, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0451530942 ISBN 13: 9780451530943

Casa editrice: Signet, 2008

Riassunto

The greatest of American classics, featuring a new introduction, follows the waif Huck down the Mississippi with a runaway slave named Jim as he discovers the meaning of friendship and finds his own morality. Reissue.

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Recensione:

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”—Ernest Hemingway

L'autore:

Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits, he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental—and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia for the past helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Signet
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0451530942
• ISBN 13: 9780451530943
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336