Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, better known as Huck, Tom Sawyer's best friend, is the continuation of the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huck Finn will flee with his friend and slave, Jim, along the Mississippi River towards Ohio, a state where slavery is abolished, with the intention of escaping from the world in which the two find themselves in search of the freedom. They will run numerous adventures, awaiting a totally unexpected end. With this novel, a before and after arises in Mark Twain's narrative, embracing a pessimism that he would not abandon until the end of his days. Superstitions, adventures, friendship, racism, the description of the southern society of the moment are the axis of this novel. Mark Twain Bio: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was an American journalist, writer, and comedian who was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835, and died in Connecticut on April 21, 1910. He wrote highly successful works such as El Prince and the Pauper or A Yankee in the Court of King Arthur, but is best known for his novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He grew up in Hannibal (Missouri), a place he would use as the setting for the adventures Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He worked as a printer's apprentice and as a typesetter, and was involved in writing articles for his older brother Orion's newspaper. Working as a printer in various cities, he became a navigator pilot on the Mississippi River.