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Huck, the disreputable boy in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", was beaten whenever his drunken father was sober enough to hold the strap. He was 14 when he got away from him, and met old Jim, also on the run. Together on a raft they tumbled in and out of experiences.
Mark Twain (1835-1910).American man of letters and novelist,he is best remembered fr his keen social observ ation and as the creator of the immortal Huck Finn.
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri; his family moved to the port town of Hannibal four years later. His father, an unsuccessful farmer, died when Twain was eleven. Soon afterward the boy began working as an apprentice printer, and by age sixteen he was writing newspaper sketches. He left Hannibal at eighteen to work as an itinerant printer in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. From 1857 to 1861 he worked on Mississippi steamboats, advancing from cub pilot to licensed pilot.
Mark Twain (1835-1910).American man of letters and novelist,he is best remembered fr his keen social observ ation and as the creator of the immortal Huck Finn.
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri; his family moved to the port town of Hannibal four years later. His father, an unsuccessful farmer, died when Twain was eleven. Soon afterward the boy began working as an apprentice printer, and by age sixteen he was writing newspaper sketches. He left Hannibal at eighteen to work as an itinerant printer in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. From 1857 to 1861 he worked on Mississippi steamboats, advancing from cub pilot to licensed pilot.