The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835. He received little education and at the age of thirteen started working as a printer. Later, he helped his brother to produce a local newspaper for which he wrote short stories from time to time. When he was twenty he left printing and began to work on the great Mississippi river boats. He said later in his life that he had met most of the characters in his stories on the river. In 1862 he started writing regularly for newspapers. His first book, a collection of short stories, appeared in 1867. He continued to write books, mainly about his travels and the people he met on them, but his best known stories are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Vrince and the Vauper (1880) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is said to be Mark Twain's finest book. Huckleberry is an uneducated but very cheerful and friendly boy, full of common sense. He runs away from his cruel father, and meets a slave, Jim, who is running away from his master. Together they travel far down the Mississippi river, having many adventures and meeting many people of the sort that Mark Twain himself met when he was working on the river.