Book description
Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous
Pap, and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family.
Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi
together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom.
Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a
satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on
30 November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Twain worked first as a
printer and then as a pilot on Mississippi steamboats. The name Mark
Twain is a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two
fathoms deep. Twain later worked as a prospector, a journalist and a publisher.
Twain wrote many books but his most famous works are The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn (1885). He is also well known as the author of The Prince
and the Pauper (1882) and A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court (1889).
Twain moved around a great deal during his life and lived in Europe
for some years. He finally settled near Redding in Connecticut where
he died on 21 April 1910.
