Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Reading time: about 8 h
Length: 110,887 words · 200 pages
Structure: 43 chapters
Language: English
Era: Victorian

Huck Finn, last seen at the end of Tom Sawyer, escapes his father and floats down the Mississippi on a raft with Jim, who is escaping slavery. Their journey — through storms, feuds, con men and small river towns — is told in Huck’s own voice.

Mark Twain published the novel in England in 1884 and in the United States in 1885. Its vernacular narration changed American prose, and its treatment of race and conscience has been argued over ever since. Readers should know that the book reproduces the speech of its time and place, including a racial slur used throughout; Bibliomancer presents the text as written.

The illustrations by E. W. Kemble from the first edition are not reproduced; the complete text is.

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Mark Twain

1835–1910 · Victorian

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), born in Florida, Missouri, and raised in Hannibal on the Mississippi. He was a printer, a river pilot, a prospector and a journalist in Nevada and California before The Celebrated Jumping Frog (1865) and The Innocents Abroad (1869) made his name. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889) followed. He lectured around the world to recover from bankruptcy in the 1890s and died in Connecticut.

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