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Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn [Number 976 Dent Everyman's Library].
With introduction by Christopher Morley.
Tom Sawyer - Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and first love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth from one of America’s most beloved authors.
Huckleberry Finn - He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He’s Huck Finn - liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. On their exciting flight down the Mississippi aboard a raft, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction.
Tom Sawyer And Huckleberry Finn (Everyman's Library 976) By Mark Twain 1943, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1943. 435pp.
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- Format : Small 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Good (Book - Very Good / Dust Jacket - Good)
- Category : Fiction - Antiquarian Fiction
- Published : 1876/1885 (This Edition 1943 - J.M Dent / Everyman's Library)
- ISBN : N/A
- SKU : B003101
- PPC : LL300gm
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- Quantity Available : 1 only.
All pages are clear and crisp, no writing or underlining, no creases or tears, no stamps. Red board cloth embossed, gold lettering on spine. Dust jacket has small rips to front and a small red ink mark on the back. Spine and cover are solid & strong. Overall "Good". (See Photographs).
Comes with JM Dent Bookmark advertising the new Everyman's Encyclopaedia 1949-1950.
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External Reviews
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” - Ernest Hemmingway.
"As mentioned, one of the strongest arguments for Tom Sawyer being a classic is because it's one of the first and still best examples of the "American Pastoral" novel, an extremely important development in the cultural history of the Victorian Age that has unfortunately become a bit obscure in our times; for those who don't know, it was basically an artistic rebellion against the Industrial Age of the early 1800s, a group of writers and painters and thinkers who came together to decry the dehumanization of mechanized urban centres."
"This book is two stories: The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tom Sawyer is much more innocent story where Huck Finn gets mixed up in some more serious stuff. Both tales start fairly slow, but actually become page turners later on, especially Huck Finn. Mark Twain did a great job reminding me what it felt like to be a 12 or 13 year old boy, he captures the world as one sees it at that age perfectly. He also has a great sense of humour and the book was funnier than what you might expect for something written in 1876." - Goodreads Reviews.
The Author
Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910). He was born and brought up in the American state of Missouri and, because of his father's death, he left school to earn his living when he was only twelve. He was a great adventurer and travelled round America as a printer; prospected for gold and set off for South America to earn his fortune. He returned to become a steam-boat pilot on the Mississippi River, close to where he had grown up. The Civil War put an end to steam-boating and Clemens briefly joined the Confederate army - although the rest of his family were Unionists! He had already tried his hand at newspaper reporting and now became a successful journalist. He started to use the alias Mark Twain during the Civil War and it was under this pen name that he became a famous travel writer. He took the name from his steam-boat days - it was the river pilots' cry to let their men know that the water was two fathoms deep.
Mark Twain was always nostalgic about his childhood and in 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, based on his own experiences. The book was soon recognised as a work of genius and eight years later the sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was published. The great writer Ernest Hemingway claimed that 'All modern literature stems from this one book.'
Mark Twain was soon famous all over the world. He made a fortune from writing and lost it on a typesetter he invented. He then made another fortune and lost it on a bad investment. He was an impulsive, hot-tempered man but was also quite sentimental and superstitious. He was born when Halley's Comet was passing the Earth and always believed he would die when it returned - this is exactly what happened.
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