Bibliograph

Adventures of huckleberry finn, Azar Nafisi, Mark Twain and R. Kent Rasmussen

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Adventures of huckleberry finn, Azar Nafisi, Mark Twain and R. Kent Rasmussen

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

unknown

Main title

Adventures of huckleberry finn

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

883349652

Responsibility statement

Azar Nafisi, Mark Twain and R. Kent Rasmussen

Summary

The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen 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

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