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Mark Twain

Mark Twain
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American writer and humorist Mark Twain demonstrated an uncanny understanding of childhood and human nature, often writing in the vernacular of the American South. Twain’s biting social and political satires reflect his abhorrence of social and moral injustices. In the moral climax of Mark Twain’s quintessential American novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is deciding to help Jim, a runaway slave, escape. Recited by an actor.
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Children’s Literature; United States (Culture); Novel; Twain, Mark; American Literature: Prose
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