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Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain
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With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding the treasure that Joe had buried. Huckleberry Finn recounts the further adventures of Huck, who runs away from a drunken and brutal father, and meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft, participating in the lives of the characters they meet, witnessing corruption, moral decay and intellectual impoverishment. Sharing so much in background and character, these two stories, the best of Twain, indisputably belong together in one volume. Though originally written as adventure stories for young people, the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century and the institution of slavery.
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Kaylasreads22
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Great book but read it

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archaeolibrarianologist
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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 1! #PhillyMeetUp edition! Proudly displayed by @lmstraubie ! A top American classic. Iconic, legendary, essential Americana. From the painting of the white picket fence, to the cave, to Injun Joe, this set the stage for yet another iconic book--Huckleberry Finn. This one has more variety, more comedy, more of the picaresque. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

BookBabe 😁 7y
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LaraReads
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My two absolute favorite #ruralsetting books when I was younger. I couldn't get enough! Bought these copies on our most recent trip to New Orleans in hopes I could get my daughter to love them just as much! I haven't read them as an adult. I wonder if my sense of adventure is still as high as it was back then? 😬 #aprilbookshowers

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Read4life
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#17booklove Day 25 #classiclove Loved all of these and love these editions I got from B&N!

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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https://www.google.com/amp/flavorwire.com/333790/famous-authors-funniest-respons...

⬆️famous authors responses to their books being banned...in the photo is Mark Twain's, click on the link for more.

#bannedbooks #SomethingforSept

SiriGuruDevSingh Mark Twain!😍😍😍 8y
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BerkleyPub
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"A man who does not read his no advantage over the man who cannot read" - Mark Twain

Alma It brings sweet memories... 8y
britt_brooke 💙💙💙 8y
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Sarahreadstoomuch

Now he found out a new thing—namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. {TRUTH.}

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Ellen_C
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First time reading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn! Join me on my literary walk of shame as I read the stuff I should have read over 30 years ago. http://cannonballread.com/2016/05/i-have-just-read-mark-twain-for-the-first-time...

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