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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - cover

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.
The work has been popular with readers since its publication and is taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Available since: 06/29/2004.

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