Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

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by Mark Twain · 1835–1910

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"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is a picaresque novel published in 1884-1885. Told in vernacular English, it follows young Huck Finn as he escapes his abusive father and flees down the Mississippi River with Jim, an enslaved man seeking freedom. Their journey brings encounters with feuding families, con artists, and moral dilemmas that challenge Huck's conscience. Set in the antebellum South, this sequel to "Tom Sawyer" is celebrated for its portrayal of boyhood and its satirical examination of racism and society.

Summary generated automatically by Project Gutenberg.

Read time
505 min
Words
111,074
Chapters
88
Paragraphs
2,294
Price
Free
  • Adventure stories
  • Bildungsromans
  • Boys -- Fiction
  • Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Fugitive slaves -- Fiction
  • Humorous stories
  • Male friendship -- Fiction
  • Mississippi River -- Fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Somehow it didn’t seem to me that I said it was Mary before, so I didn’t look up—seemed to me I said it was Sarah;

Por alguna razón, no me pareció que hubiera dicho antes que me llamaba Mary, así que no levanté la vista; me pareció que había dicho que me llamaba Sarah;

so I felt sort of cornered, and was afeared maybe I was looking it, too.

así que me sentí como acorralado, y temía que quizás eso se reflejara en mi cara.

I wished the woman would say something more; the longer she set still the uneasier I was.

Deseaba que la mujer dijera algo más; cuanto más se quedaba quieta, más nervioso me ponía.

But now she says:

Pero ahora dijo:

About the author

Mark Twain1835–1910

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, was an American writer, humorist, and journalist who died in 1910 in Redding.

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Book details

Original language
English
Translation
Spanish, machine translation
Source text
Project Gutenberg #76
Licence
Public domain worldwide

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