Adventures of Huckleberry Finn($7.85Value)

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The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of  Reading Lolita in Tehran  and  The Republic of Imagination In recent years, neither the persistent effort to “clean up” the racial epithets in Mark Twain’s  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel’s wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in American history, defining the experience of a nation in voices often satirical, but always authentic. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn .” –Ernest Hemingway Mark Twain  (1835–1910) was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri. Starting out as typesetter, he went on to work as a steamboat pilot, prospector, and journalist before publishing his first major book,  The Innocents Abroad. Azar Nafisi  is the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of  Reading Lolita in Tehran ,  Things I’ve Been Silent About , and  The Republic of Imagination . A passionate advocate of books and reading, she appears regularly on major media and speaks to packed audiences around the world. She lives in Washington, D.C. R. Kent Rasmussen  is the author or editor of nine books on Mark Twain, including the award-winning  Mark Twain A to Z , as well as more than a dozen other books. He lives in Southern California. PENGUIN CLASSICS ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN MARK TWAIN was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, about forty miles southwest of Hannibal, the Mississippi River town he was to celebrate in his writing. In 1853 he left home, earning a living as an itinerant typesetter, and four years later became an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi, a career cut short by the outbreak of the Civil War. For five years, as a prospector and a journalist, Clemens lived in Nevada and California. In February 1863 he first signed the pseudonym “Mark Twain” to a newspaper article, and a trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 became the basis of his first major book, The Innocents Abroad (1869). Roughing It (1872), his account of experiences in the West, was followed by a coauthored satirical novel, The Gilded Age (1873); Sketches, New and Old (1875); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876); A Tramp Abroad (1880); The Prince and the Pauper (1881); Life on the Mississippi (1883); his masterpiece, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889); and Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894). Compelled by debts, Clemens moved his family abroad during the 1890s and went on a round-the-world lecture tour in 1895–1896. His fortunes mended, he returned to America in 1900. He was as celebrated for his white suit and his mane of white hair as for his uncompromising stands against injustice and imperialism, as well as his invariably quoted comments on any subject under the sun. Samuel Clemens died on April 21, 1910. AZAR NAFISI is the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a number one New York Times bestseller that chronicled her experiences teaching English and American classics to her students in Tehran; Things I’ve Been Silent About; and The Republic of Imagination, in which she considers her evolving relationship with and understanding of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . A passionate advocate of books and reading, she speaks to audiences around the world about the essential role of fiction in both totalitarian and democratic societies. She is a visiting professor and the executive director of Cultural Conversations at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and lives in Washington, D.C. R. KENT RASMUSSEN is the author or editor of nine books on Mark Twain and more than a dozen other books. He is best known for his award-winning Mark Twain A to Z (revised as the two-volume Critical Companion to Mark Twain ) and The Quotable Mark Twain . For Penguin Classics, he wrote the notes and introductions to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and edited Mark Twain’s Autobiographical Writings . Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 USA | Canada | UK | Ireland | Australia | New Zealand | India | South Africa | China penguin.com A Penguin Rand