Author: Carson Cunningham
Publisher: Huckleberry Books
ISBN: 0990494500
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Revisit a childhood classic with Carson Cunningham’s modern and witty take on a beloved hero in 21st Century Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mystery at Rolling Dunes. The 21st CENTURY ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN tells the story of how, one-hundred and seventy years after falling into an Arctic ice hole, Huckleberry Finn is discovered, thawed out, and brought back to life, unleashing his unique personality upon the 21st century. Thawed out by commercial-minded scientists, Huck Finn soon finds himself hunted by those who would love nothing more than to exploit his phenomenal story. But using his signature smarts, Huck escapes the scientists’ clutches and flees to a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan, where he sets up camp in the forest and tries living on his own. Feeling lonesome, he ventures out and meets a group of boys who call themselves the Musketeers. Befriended by their leader, Johnny MacShea, Huck is soon welcomed as a member of the gang and becomes the star of the boys’ local football team. While Huck finds a welcome home in Johnny MacShea’s family, not everyone embraces his sudden appearance in the small town, especially the parents of players on opposing football teams. In fact, just as he’s on the verge of solving a mystery that threatens the MacShea family, Huck is forced into a government-run facility for boys. Can he find a way back to Johnny MacShea’s family in time to resolve the mystery endangering the MacSheas and win the football championship with the Musketeers?
21st Century Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Carson Cunningham
Publisher: Huckleberry Books
ISBN: 0990494500
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Revisit a childhood classic with Carson Cunningham’s modern and witty take on a beloved hero in 21st Century Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mystery at Rolling Dunes. The 21st CENTURY ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN tells the story of how, one-hundred and seventy years after falling into an Arctic ice hole, Huckleberry Finn is discovered, thawed out, and brought back to life, unleashing his unique personality upon the 21st century. Thawed out by commercial-minded scientists, Huck Finn soon finds himself hunted by those who would love nothing more than to exploit his phenomenal story. But using his signature smarts, Huck escapes the scientists’ clutches and flees to a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan, where he sets up camp in the forest and tries living on his own. Feeling lonesome, he ventures out and meets a group of boys who call themselves the Musketeers. Befriended by their leader, Johnny MacShea, Huck is soon welcomed as a member of the gang and becomes the star of the boys’ local football team. While Huck finds a welcome home in Johnny MacShea’s family, not everyone embraces his sudden appearance in the small town, especially the parents of players on opposing football teams. In fact, just as he’s on the verge of solving a mystery that threatens the MacShea family, Huck is forced into a government-run facility for boys. Can he find a way back to Johnny MacShea’s family in time to resolve the mystery endangering the MacSheas and win the football championship with the Musketeers?
Publisher: Huckleberry Books
ISBN: 0990494500
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Revisit a childhood classic with Carson Cunningham’s modern and witty take on a beloved hero in 21st Century Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mystery at Rolling Dunes. The 21st CENTURY ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN tells the story of how, one-hundred and seventy years after falling into an Arctic ice hole, Huckleberry Finn is discovered, thawed out, and brought back to life, unleashing his unique personality upon the 21st century. Thawed out by commercial-minded scientists, Huck Finn soon finds himself hunted by those who would love nothing more than to exploit his phenomenal story. But using his signature smarts, Huck escapes the scientists’ clutches and flees to a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan, where he sets up camp in the forest and tries living on his own. Feeling lonesome, he ventures out and meets a group of boys who call themselves the Musketeers. Befriended by their leader, Johnny MacShea, Huck is soon welcomed as a member of the gang and becomes the star of the boys’ local football team. While Huck finds a welcome home in Johnny MacShea’s family, not everyone embraces his sudden appearance in the small town, especially the parents of players on opposing football teams. In fact, just as he’s on the verge of solving a mystery that threatens the MacShea family, Huck is forced into a government-run facility for boys. Can he find a way back to Johnny MacShea’s family in time to resolve the mystery endangering the MacSheas and win the football championship with the Musketeers?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9788174760159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In Its Distrust Of Too Much Civilisation And Its Concern With The Way Language Turns Dreamy And Corrupt When Divorced From The Real Condition Of Life, Huckleberry Finn Echoed Some Of The Central Concerns Of Life Today. Like All Great Works Of Fiction Where No Story Is Told As If It Is The Only One, Huck Finn Is Open-Ended, The 'Unfinished Story' Where The True Meaning Is Left To The Conscience And Imagination Of Each Reader.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9788174760159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In Its Distrust Of Too Much Civilisation And Its Concern With The Way Language Turns Dreamy And Corrupt When Divorced From The Real Condition Of Life, Huckleberry Finn Echoed Some Of The Central Concerns Of Life Today. Like All Great Works Of Fiction Where No Story Is Told As If It Is The Only One, Huck Finn Is Open-Ended, The 'Unfinished Story' Where The True Meaning Is Left To The Conscience And Imagination Of Each Reader.
Satire Or Evasion?
Author: James S. Leonard
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822311744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Ranging from the laudatory to the openly hostile, 15 essays by prominent African American scholars and critics examine the novel's racist elements and assess the degree to which Twain's ironies succeed or fail to turn those elements into a satirical attack on racism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822311744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Ranging from the laudatory to the openly hostile, 15 essays by prominent African American scholars and critics examine the novel's racist elements and assess the degree to which Twain's ironies succeed or fail to turn those elements into a satirical attack on racism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Huck Finn's America
Author: Andrew Levy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439186960
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Examines Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, calling into question commonly held interpretations of the work on the subjects of youth, youth culture, and race relations, based on research into the social preoccupations of the era in which it was written.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439186960
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Examines Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, calling into question commonly held interpretations of the work on the subjects of youth, youth culture, and race relations, based on research into the social preoccupations of the era in which it was written.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451611366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
THERE WARN’T NO HOME LIKE A RAFT, AFTER ALL. THE MONSTERS CAIN’T GET YOU THERE. NOT SO EASY. Free at last! Huckleberry Finn and Bagger Jim, his dearest, deadest friend, have set sail on a great adventure once again, but this time rattlers, scammers, and robbers are the least of their worries. The pox is killing men and bringing them back meaner and hungrier than ever, and zombies all over are giving in to their urges to eat. Huck can’t be sure that friendship will keep him from getting eaten up too, but with a price on Jim’s head for the murder Huck staged of himself, they’ve got to rely on each other and the mighty Mississippi to make their great escape. . . .
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451611366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
THERE WARN’T NO HOME LIKE A RAFT, AFTER ALL. THE MONSTERS CAIN’T GET YOU THERE. NOT SO EASY. Free at last! Huckleberry Finn and Bagger Jim, his dearest, deadest friend, have set sail on a great adventure once again, but this time rattlers, scammers, and robbers are the least of their worries. The pox is killing men and bringing them back meaner and hungrier than ever, and zombies all over are giving in to their urges to eat. Huck can’t be sure that friendship will keep him from getting eaten up too, but with a price on Jim’s head for the murder Huck staged of himself, they’ve got to rely on each other and the mighty Mississippi to make their great escape. . . .
21st Century Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Carson Cunningham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990494522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Having slipped out of Rolling Dunes, Indiana, to avoid getting captured by the shady scientist Dr. Knotts and his henchmen, Huck Finn, going by the name of Mark, finds his way to his old hometown, St. Petersburg. There, deep in the forest, he takes up residence in his Pap's old cabin. By and by lonesomeness sets in and he goes to town. He meets a girl, Lucy Thoreau, who captures his imagination and moves him like nothing ever before. As part of Finn's plan to win Lucy's hand, he signs up for the Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher Contest, a weeks-long affair and the town's signature event. The competition is fierce, among contestants and parents alike, and Huck quickly finds that he has rivals. The contest culminates in the "crowning" of a Tom and a Becky for that year at St. Petersburg's famed Tom Sawyer Days festival. Huck is pretty sure Lucy Thoreau is going to be Becky, but it's going to take an inside straight for him to be Tom.To boot, as Huck builds this new life and the final rounds of the Tom and Becky contest draw near, Dr. Knotts closes in on his goal of outing Huckleberry Finn's true identity and turning his incredible story into a money-making machine. Can Huck maintain his freedom, get named Tom, and win Lucy's heart?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990494522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Having slipped out of Rolling Dunes, Indiana, to avoid getting captured by the shady scientist Dr. Knotts and his henchmen, Huck Finn, going by the name of Mark, finds his way to his old hometown, St. Petersburg. There, deep in the forest, he takes up residence in his Pap's old cabin. By and by lonesomeness sets in and he goes to town. He meets a girl, Lucy Thoreau, who captures his imagination and moves him like nothing ever before. As part of Finn's plan to win Lucy's hand, he signs up for the Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher Contest, a weeks-long affair and the town's signature event. The competition is fierce, among contestants and parents alike, and Huck quickly finds that he has rivals. The contest culminates in the "crowning" of a Tom and a Becky for that year at St. Petersburg's famed Tom Sawyer Days festival. Huck is pretty sure Lucy Thoreau is going to be Becky, but it's going to take an inside straight for him to be Tom.To boot, as Huck builds this new life and the final rounds of the Tom and Becky contest draw near, Dr. Knotts closes in on his goal of outing Huckleberry Finn's true identity and turning his incredible story into a money-making machine. Can Huck maintain his freedom, get named Tom, and win Lucy's heart?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Other Novels
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435154032
Category : Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435154032
Category : Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Tinkers
Author: Paul Harding
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1942658613
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Special edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel—featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past, where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. The story behind this New York Times bestselling debut novel—the first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner since A Confederacy of Dunces received the award nearly thirty years before—is as extraordinary as the elegant prose within it. Inspired by his family’s history, Paul Harding began writing Tinkers when his rock band broke up. Following numerous rejections from large publishers, Harding was about to shelve the manuscript when Bellevue Literary Press offered a contract. After being accepted by BLP, but before it was even published, the novel developed a following among independent booksellers from coast to coast. Readers and critics soon fell in love, and it went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize, prompting the New York Times to declare the novel’s remarkable success “the most dramatic literary Cinderella story of recent memory.” That story is still being written as readers across the country continue to discover this modern classic, which has now sold over half a million copies, proving once again that great literature has a thriving and passionate audience. Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: Enon and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tinkers. He teaches at Stony Brook Southampton.
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1942658613
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Special edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel—featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past, where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. The story behind this New York Times bestselling debut novel—the first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner since A Confederacy of Dunces received the award nearly thirty years before—is as extraordinary as the elegant prose within it. Inspired by his family’s history, Paul Harding began writing Tinkers when his rock band broke up. Following numerous rejections from large publishers, Harding was about to shelve the manuscript when Bellevue Literary Press offered a contract. After being accepted by BLP, but before it was even published, the novel developed a following among independent booksellers from coast to coast. Readers and critics soon fell in love, and it went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize, prompting the New York Times to declare the novel’s remarkable success “the most dramatic literary Cinderella story of recent memory.” That story is still being written as readers across the country continue to discover this modern classic, which has now sold over half a million copies, proving once again that great literature has a thriving and passionate audience. Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: Enon and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tinkers. He teaches at Stony Brook Southampton.
Mark Twain and the Brazen Serpent
Author: Doug Aldridge
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476668450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain's richly evocative style dissects Huck's conscience to propose humane amorality as a corrective to moral absolutes. Jim and Huck emerge as archetypal twins--biracial brothers who prefigure America's color-blind ideals.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476668450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain's richly evocative style dissects Huck's conscience to propose humane amorality as a corrective to moral absolutes. Jim and Huck emerge as archetypal twins--biracial brothers who prefigure America's color-blind ideals.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Gabriel Diani
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984725601
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
"Mark Twain's classic text has been a lightning rod for controversy since its first publication in the late nineteenth century, and has consistently been one of the most banned books in schools and libraries across the United States. In an effort to fight the censorship of this iconic piece of literature, editors Gabriel Diani and Etta Devine have removed every instance of the "n-word" and replaced it with the word "robot." Complete and unabridged (except for bits here and there), with E.W. Kemble's original illustrations painstakingly altered by artist Denise Devine to include robots, this bold new edition makes Twain's timeless work accessible to a whole new generation of readers...without being bogged down by what he wanted to say about racism." -- [book cover]
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984725601
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
"Mark Twain's classic text has been a lightning rod for controversy since its first publication in the late nineteenth century, and has consistently been one of the most banned books in schools and libraries across the United States. In an effort to fight the censorship of this iconic piece of literature, editors Gabriel Diani and Etta Devine have removed every instance of the "n-word" and replaced it with the word "robot." Complete and unabridged (except for bits here and there), with E.W. Kemble's original illustrations painstakingly altered by artist Denise Devine to include robots, this bold new edition makes Twain's timeless work accessible to a whole new generation of readers...without being bogged down by what he wanted to say about racism." -- [book cover]