"To escape from his violent and drunken father, a 13-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Huckleberry Finn, fakes his own death and floats away on a raft down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave.In a series of unforgettable adventures narrated by Huck, they encounter a cross-section of characters from slave-hunters, and con men to feuding aristocrats.This was the first major American novel to be written in the vernacular, a dark and...

"Before there was 'tourism' and souvenir ashtrays became 'kitsch,' the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini Golf, and feathered rubber tomahawks. It was there that author Bill Geist spent summers in the sixties during his school and college years, working at Arrowhead Lodge--a small resort owned by his bombastic uncle--in all areas of the operation, from...

These unjustly neglected works, among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels, follow Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon, then down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime.

A young boy runs away and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a Black slave who is also running away but life is not always so easy for the two friends. Includes activities at the end of the story.

"The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century." -- "Mark Twain alcanzó la popularidad gracias a sus ingeniosas y a menudo satíricas observaciones sober su época y su entorno, pero esta obra le abrió las puertas de la historica de la literatura. Evoación de la infancia del propio autor a orillas del Misisipí, esta novela ofrece uno de los relatos más bellos jamás escritos...

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a 19th-century Mississippi River town as he plays hooky on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirate's treasure, and becomes lost in a cave--Novelist.