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Get a comprehensive understanding of the classic tale of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with the help of this study guide showcasing the story in a new and innovative way.
Mark Twain's classic and controversial novel weaves together adventure, comedy, and satire in the story of Huck's struggle to escape his abusive father, and his companion Jim's fight for freedom in the time of slavery.
This The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn study guide was written by Kirsten Silva Gruesz, PhD, an assistant professor of English specializing in American Literature at the College of William and Mary and guest lecturer at both Yale University and Harvard University. This program is presented by John O'Connell, a noted actor of the stage, screen, and television.
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About the Authors
Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens (1835–1910), was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He attended school briefly and then at age thirteen became a full-time apprentice to a local printer. When his older brother Orion established the Hannibal Journal, Samuel became a compositor for that paper and then, for a time, an itinerant printer. With a commission to write comic travel letters, he traveled down the Mississippi. Smitten with the riverboat life, he signed on as an apprentice to a steamboat pilot. After 1859, he became a licensed pilot, but two years later the Civil War put an end to the steam-boat traffic.
In 1861, he and his brother traveled to the Nevada Territory where Samuel became a writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and there, on February 3, 1863, he signed a humorous account with the pseudonym Mark Twain. The name was a river man’s term for water “two fathoms deep” and thus just barely safe for navigation.
In 1870 Twain married and moved with his wife to Hartford, Connecticut. He became a highly successful lecturer in the United States and England, and he continued to write.