The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic
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Publisher Description
Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley ”a sequel to Tom Sawyer” the book grew and matured under Twain's hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity. More than a century after its publication, the critical debate over the symbolic significance of Huck's and Jim's voyage is still fresh, and it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American humor.
Enriched eBook Features Editor R. Kent Rasmussen provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic:
* Chronology
* Filmography and Stills from the 1920 Silent Film Huckleberry Film
* Contemporary Reviews of Huckleberry Finn
* Further Reading
* Online Mark Twain Resources and Places to Visit
* Photos of Mark Twain Sites and First Edition Frontispiece
* Selection of E.W. Kemble’s Illustrations for the First Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and John Harley’s Illustrations for the First Edition of Life on the Mississippi
* Enriched eBook Notes
The enriched eBook format invites readers to go beyond the pages of these beloved works and gain more insight into the life and times of an author and the period in which the book was originally written for a rich reading experience.
Customer Reviews
Free isn't necessarily better
This is one of three (at the time of this writing) versions of Huck on the store. Unlike the Project Guttenberg text, it is accompanied by inline critical analysis and a nice forward. Whether or not this is important to you depend on whether you will need to speak competently on the 150 year old text in an academic setting. If you'd rather be $6 richer for your contextual ignorance, be proud that you live in a nation that provides you that right [assuming the text is very, very old; that which is merely very old will be forever copyrighted].
That said, this is not the best way to simply read the book. If you want to skip all the well meaning but noisy Gutenberg markup, the $3 version of the text is a nice way to go.
Don't blame Apple,
blame Penguin. There's a free version available, if you just search.
Public Domain
Ditto, I well appreciate the above comment.