{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-isbn-9789380028354","title":"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn","description":"Running away seemed like a good idea at the time...\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Widow Douglas is doing her best to civilise Huckleberry Finn, but it just isn't working. Wearing clean clothes, going to school, and having a hot meal waiting for him when he gets home are becoming boring and tedious.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e So, to make his life more interesting Huck, as he is normally called, decides to join Tom Sawyer's gang of outlaws. However, when they fail to be the vicious ransom specialists they claim to be, Huck decides to forget about excitement and tries to give his civilised life another go. He attends school and minds his own business... for a while.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e After his father turns up out of the blue and starts causing trouble, Huck decides he's had enough of normal life and sets sail on his raft for a secluded island. When he arrives he finds he's not the only one who has decided to live there. On the island, he encounters thieves, a flood that provides a nice surprise, con men, violent shootouts, family feuds and much more.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e After so much adventure, Huckleberry Finn ends up wishing he was back at home, tucked up in bed after a hot meal. But does this wish come true, or do his adventures continue?This slender graphic adaptation of the Great American Novel preserves some of Twain’s language, most of his plot and a good sense of his sardonic take on human society. Mixing dialogue balloons with enough boxed narrative to evoke Huck’s distinctive voice, Mann packs in all of the major incidents and tones down at least some of the violence — the two con men are only “punished” here rather than specifically tarred and feathered, for instance. Similarly, though Huck gets viciously slapped around by his father in the pictures, in general there isn’t much other blood visible. . . . A good choice for readers who aren’t quite up to tackling the original, with perfunctory but well-meant notes on Twain’s life and the history of slavery in the United States. Co-published with its prequel, \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ehighly recommend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Campfire’s comics. They do what they are intended to do and do it in  a way that excites kids about classic literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Chris Wilson, The Graphic Classroom (a resource for teachers and librarians)Samuel Langhorne Clemans, known to most as Mark Twain, has been hailed by many as the father of American Literature.  His two most famous works, \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003c\/i\u003e (1876) and \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn \u003c\/i\u003e(1884), are considered two of the greatest American novels of all time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwain was born in Florida, Missouri on 30th November 1835.  He grew up in the town of Hannibal on the Mississippi River, which would eventually serve as the basis for the place where Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn would live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwain grew up in Missouri at a time when it was a slave state.  After the American Civil War broke out, he became a strong supporter of emancipation, and staunchly believed that the slave trade should be abolished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough he began as a comic writer, the tribulations he faced in his personal life perhaps served to turn him into a serious, even pessimistic, writer in his later years.  He lost his wife and two daughters, and his ill-fated life never really allowed him to recover.  Twain passed away in 1910, but he is still one of the best-loved writers around the world.","brand":"Campfire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299755282661,"sku":"NP9789380028354","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9789380028354.jpg?v=1767738012","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-isbn-9789380028354","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}