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'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.'
Title: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Original: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Category: Novella
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Collins Classics
Year: 2013
Weight: 0.190 kg
ISBN: 978-0-00-735103-9
This book is in English
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'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.'
Miserable and down on his luck, young Huck Finn escapes his drunken father by faking his own death – and so begins his life-changing journey through the Deep South. On his travels Huck meets Jim, a runaway slave, and together they form a close friendship as they journey down the Mississippi River on their individual quests for independence and freedom.
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