Mark Twain's great American masterpiece in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the
award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are
bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain's
tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and
experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from
his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim he embarks on
a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous
'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits however are more serious undercurrents - of
slavery adult control and above all of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and
the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim. Mark
Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on 30th November 1835 in Florida Missouri. In 1853 he
left home earning a living as an itinerant type-setter 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 used the pseudonym 'Mark Twain' as the signature to a humorous travel
letter. A trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 became the basis of his first major book
The Innocents Abroad (1869). His numerous subsequent books include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(1876) A Tramp Aborad (1880) The Prince and the Pauper (1882) and his masterpiece The
Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (1885). Twain died on 21st April 1910. 'The best book we've had'
- Ernest Hemingway
