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  • Published: 2 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141918457
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn




Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this 140th anniversary edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete with a special introduction by Darren Shan.

Huckleberry Finn's childhood wasn't exactly smooth sailing but everything changed when he met Tom Sawyer.

'Now we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang!'

Bound by an oath to make trouble, the Gang embark on a daring adventure down the Mississippi river, every turn . . .until they meet Jim.

Will the Gang work together to help him?

  • Published: 2 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141918457
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

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About the author

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's real name was Sam Clemens, and he was born in 1835 in a small town on the Mississippi, one of seven children. He smoked cigars at the age of eight, and aged nine he stowed away on a steamboat. He left school at 11 and worked at a grocery store, a bookstore, a blacksmith's and a newspaper, where he was allowed to write his own stories (not all of them true). He then worked on a steamboat, where he got the name 'Mark Twain' (from the call given by the boat's pilot when their boat is in safe waters). Eventually he turned to journalism again, travelled round the world, and began writing books which became very popular. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are his most famous novels. He poured the money he earned from writing into new business ventures and crazy inventions, such as a clamp to stop babies throwing off their bed covers, a new boardgame, and a hand grenade full of extinguishing liquid to throw on a fire. With his shock of white hair and trademark white suit Mark Twain became the most famous American writer in the world. He died in 1910.

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