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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
  • Published: 1 December 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529982084
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $39.99

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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1 Dec 2026
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2 Jan 2014
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1 Nov 2010
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1 Feb 2008
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This edition features a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen that situates the novel for a contemporary audience, and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of The Republic of Imagination.

The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination

In recent years, neither the persistent effort to “clean up” the racial epithets in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel’s wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in American history, defining the experience of a nation in voices often satirical, but always authentic.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
  • Published: 1 December 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529982084
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Mark Twain

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Mark Twain spent his youth in Hannibal, Missouri, which forms the setting for his two greatest works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Trying his hand at printing, typesetting and then gold-mining, the former steam-boat pilot eventually found his calling in journalism and travel writing. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner, Twain died in 1910 after a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success.
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Praise for The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn...There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since

Ernest Hemingway

The quintessential American novel

Guardian

It is Huck who gives the book style. The River gives the book its form. But for the River, the book might be only a sequence of adventures with a happy ending. A river, a very big and powerful river, is the only natural force that can wholly determine the course of human peregrination.... Thus the River makes the book a great book... Mark Twain is a native, and the River God is his God

T.S. Eliot

The invention of this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension to our literature. It is a language capable of poetry

Robert Penn Warren

Running all through the book is the sharpest satire on the ante-bellum estimate of the slave

San Francisco Chronicle

I believe that Huckleberry Finn is one of the great masterpieces of the world

H.L. Mencken

Huckleberry Finn took the first journey back. His eyes were the first eyes that ever looked at us objectively that were not eyes from overseas... he wanted to find out about men and how they lived together. And because he turned back we have him forever

F. Scott Fitzgerald