{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-9780307475565","title":"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn","description":"\u003cb\u003eLong cherished by readers of all ages: the hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a powerful parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world--from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003e\"the father of American literature\" (William Faukner, Nobel Prize-Winning Author). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e... It's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that.\" --Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-Winning Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mighty Mississippi River of the antebellum South gives the novel both its colorful backdrop and its narrative shape, as the runaways Huck and Jim--a young rebel against civilization allied with an escaped slave--drift down its length on a flimsy raft. Their journey, at times rollickingly funny but always deadly serious in its potential consequences, takes them ever deeper into the slave-holding South, and our appreciation of their shared humanity grows as we watch them travel physically farther from yet morally closer to the freedom they both passionately seek.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARK TWAIN was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in Connecticut in 1910. He worked as a Mississippi riverboat pilot, a journalist, and a travel writer before achieving tremendous popularity as a humorist and novelist.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641372446994,"sku":"9780307475565","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f8788f6b-b427-48fd-96af-faee5731ee09.jpg?v=1774962656","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-9780307475565","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}