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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn – by Mark Twain
In a unique edition, read two masterpieces belonging to the Great American novels:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) features one of the best-loved characters in American fiction. The novel Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn – by Mark Twain is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in the 19th century, in which Mark Twain spent his own youth.
A somber undercurrent flows through the high humor and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality – base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) is the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy’s adventures in the Mississippi Valley, the book matured under Twain’s hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity.
The child’s ingenuous gaze on the flaws of civilized people feeds the virulent satire of a hypocritical society.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) was first trained as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river – ‘Mark Twain’, a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep and therefore safe, became the pen name by which he acquired worldwide fame.
