{"product_id":"tom-saywer-and-huckleberry-finn-hardback","title":"Tom Saywer and Huckleberry Finn Hardback","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) features one of the best-loved characters in American fiction. The novel is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in the 19th century, in which Mark Twain spent his own youth. A sombre undercurrent flows through the high humour and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality - base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) is the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley, the book matured under Twain's hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity. The child's ingenuous gaze on the flaws of civilized people feeds the virulent satire of an hypocritical society. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSamuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) was first trained as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river - 'Mark Twain', phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep and therefore safe, became the pen name by which he acquired worldwide fame.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44978177671468,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/danebooksandgifts.myshopify.com\/products\/tom-saywer-and-huckleberry-finn-hardback","provider":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}