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Read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Englishwith every sentence explained
Mark Twain · 1884
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About the book
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in 1884. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked advanced and filed under historical fiction and young adult. It runs to about 109,800 words.
A runaway boy. A man escaping slavery. One raft and the whole Mississippi.
Huck Finn has been "sivilized" by the Widow Douglas — and he hates every minute of it. When his drunken, violent father reappears and locks him in a cabin in the woods, Huck fakes his own death and slips away down the river.
On an island he meets Jim, a man who has fled Miss Watson because she plans to sell him far from his family. Together they drift south on a raft, through storms, feuds and towns full of con men and fools. And as the miles pass, Huck must decide whether to obey everything he has been taught — or listen to his own heart about his friend.
Told in Huck's unforgettable voice, Mark Twain's 1884 masterpiece is often called the great American novel.
- Author
- Mark Twain
- First published
- 1884
- Language
- English
- Level
- Advanced
- Genre
- Historical Fiction, Young Adult
- Length
- About 109,800 words
How it opens
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
Reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate English book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
