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Set in a Southern antebellum society the story is told from the point of view of Huck Finn a teen who faces an adventurous journey down the Mississippi River together with a runaway slave named Jim. "Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (Tom Sawyer's Companion)" by Mark Twain is noted for "changing the course of children's literature" in the US for the "deeply felt portrayal of boyhood". Significant foxing, torn pages, stray marks. Boards are nearly detached and are being held together by cloth tape. This book measures approximately 8.5" x 6.5", with 366 numbered pages. Early printing/state with most errors corrected.
First edition with 1885 date on the bottom of the title page. New introductory Note.First Edition, Early Printing. Unabridged Dover (1994) republication of the text of the first American edition, published by Charles L. But most of all, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a wonderful story filled with high adventure and unforgettable characters (including the great river itself) that no one who has read it will ever forget.
Eliot called Huck "one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet." The novel's preeminence derives from its wonderfully imaginative re-creation of boyhood adventures along the mighty Mississippi River, its inspired characterization, the author's remarkable ear for dialogue, and the book's understated development of serious underlying themes: "natural" man versus "civilized" society, the evils of slavery, the innate value and dignity of human beings, the stultifying effects of convention, and other topics. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life" Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. Referring to "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, " H.
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