The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [antikvár]

¦ MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhome Clemens) Bom: Florida, Missouri Died: Redding, Connecticut Date: November 30, 1835 Date: April 21, 1910 PRiNcrPAL Works novels: The GÜded Age, 1873 (with Charles Dudley Warner); The Adventures of Tom Saxvyer, 1876; The Pnnce and the Pauper, 1882; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur^s Court, 1889; The American Claimant, 1892; Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894; The Tragedy of Fudd'nhead Wilson, 1894; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, 1896. short stories: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, 1867; Mark Twain's Sketches: New and Old, 1875; The Stolen White Elephant, 1882; The L1,000,000 Bank-Note, 1893; The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, 1900; A Double Barrelled Detective Story, 1902; The $30,000 Bequest, 1908; A Horse's Tale, 1907; The Mysterious Stranger, 1916. kemdíiscences and autobiography: RoUghing It, 1872; Life on the MiSSiS' sippi, 1883; Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924 (2 vols.). travel sketches and impressions: The Innocents Abroad, 1869; A Tramp Abroad, 1880; Following the Equator, 1897. ESSAYS AND HUMOROUS MISCELLANIES: How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, 1897; My Debut as a Literary Person, 1903; Extracts from Adam's Diary, 1904; King Leopold's Soliloquy, 1905; What Is Man? 1906; Eve's Diary, 1906; Christian Science, 1907; Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909; Extract from Cap-tain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, 1909; Letters from the Earth, 1962. *'Mark Twain" was the pen name of Samuel L(anghome) Clemens, who was bom in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. His father was a dreamy Virginia lawyer and experimenter who, in drifting westward in search of wealth through land speculation, married in Kentucky and settled finally in 1839 in Hannibal, Missouri. In this community, on the Mississippi River between Quincy and St. Louis, the boy grew up amid the scenery and in die atmosphere portrayed in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, At twelve, following his father's death, Sam left school to become a printer; for ten years he set type as a roving journeyman as far east as New York City. In 1857 his plans to visit South America ended when Horace Bixby undertook to teach him to be a steamboat pilot. When the Civil War closed down navigation, Sam soldiered a few months with a Confederate volunteer company. With his brother Orion he went to Nevada as a clerk and then drifted into silver mining and joiu-nalism. In 1862 he adopted his pen name, a river term meaning "two fathoms deep." Fame came in 1865 with "The jumping Frog of Calaveras County," a tall t^e. Printed lectures about a journey to the Sandwich—^now Hawaiian vii