Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1885 · 380 pages
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Edition
- First American edition, with 174 illustrations
- Published
- New York, Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885
- Pages
- 380
- File
- DjVu, 31.3 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain’s best-known novel, a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It was published in Britain in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.
Huck tells the story himself, in the vernacular of a Missouri boy. To escape his violent, drunken father he fakes his own death and heads down the Mississippi on a raft with Jim, a man fleeing slavery. On the river they meet feuding families, a lynch mob and two swindlers who call themselves the Duke and the King, and Huck has to decide for himself whether to help Jim to freedom, against everything he has been taught.
The book’s use of spoken American dialect and its satire of slavery, violence and hypocrisy in the pre-war South made it a landmark of American literature. It has also been one of the most argued-over books in American schools because of its racial language.
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About this edition
The first American edition, published in New York in 1885 by Charles L. Webster and Company, Twain’s own publishing firm, and copyrighted in 1884 by Samuel L. Clemens. It has E. W. Kemble’s 174 illustrations set into the text and a heliotype frontispiece of Karl Gerhardt’s bust of Twain (file page 9). The scan, from a University of California, Los Angeles copy, has a text layer; the printed contents and list of illustrations come before the text.
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Source
A scan from the Wikimedia Foundation's open projects. The book is in the public domain: free to read, download and share.