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JamesPercival L. Everett

James

2024320 pages
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A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. Brimming with nuanced humor and…

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Editions

7 editions
  • Ebook · English · 2024
    Doubleday · 9780385550376
  • Paperback · English · 2024
    Mantle · 320 pages · 9781035031245
  • Hardcover · English · 2024
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 318 pages · 9780385550369
  • Paperback · English · 2024
    Random House Large Print · 368 pages · 9780593862735
  • Other · English · 2025
    Pan Macmillan · 320 pages · 9781035031269
  • Other · English · 2024
    Pan Macmillan · 9781035031238
American literatureNew York Times bestsellerEnslaved persons, fictionFriendship, fictionMissouri, fictionFiction, humorous, generalFiction, action & adventurefiction