A feisty young boy fakes his own death to escape his abusive father and heads off down the Mississippi River with his newfound friend Jim, a runaway slave
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A feisty young boy fakes his own death to escape his abusive father and heads off down the Mississippi River with his newfound friend Jim, a runaway slave
"First published In Great Britain by Chatto & Windus 1884. First published in the United States of America by Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885"--Title page verso
"Edition with an introduction by John Seelye published in Penguin Books (U.K.) 1985. Published in Penguin Books (U.S.A.) 1986. Edition with notes by Guy Cardwell [first] published in Penguin Books (U.S.A.) 2003"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxiii)