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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Samuel Clemens who was one American known for his strong opinions and willingness to stand against injustice. Twain lived from 1853-1910. Many a student has read this book because Twain is also known for his ability to captivate the old and the young. This book is about friendship and living life on your own terms. This is a very interesting story of adventure, friendship and search for lost
...The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a tribute to Twain's adolescence, it is filled with many crazy misadventures. Tom is a sly, street smart boy whose need for adventure almost gets him killed when he is the witness to a murder. This book is a great way to transcend yourself back to your own childhood experiences.
Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft
...From the book:
DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and
...In 1885, while The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was becoming one of the best-selling American classics of modern times, Mark Twain began this sequel in which Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim head west on the trail of two white girls kidnapped by Sioux warriors. Fifteen thousand words into the work, Twain stopped in the middle of a sentence, never to go back. The unfinished story sat on dusty shelves for more than a hundred years until author
...Mark Twain left his indelible imprint on American fiction with his humorous tales of rogues and rustics who live along the Mississippi River—among them The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, regarded by many literary enthusiasts as the great American novel. But in his satirical appraisals of personal freedom, community responsibility, and class differences, Twain roamed farther afield imaginatively than the nineteenth-century America
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WELL, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaway slave down there on Tom's uncle Silas's farm in Arkansaw. The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops, and next kites, and then right away
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