Floating down the Mississippi on their raft, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, find life filled with excitement and the spirit of adventure. Join Huck and Jim and their old friend Tom Sawyer as they come up against low-down thieves and murderers, whilst being chased by Huck’s evil, drunken father who is after Huck’s treasure. It is a trip that you will never tire of.

In this new unabridged recording, Garrick Hagon brings his remarkable powers of vocal characterization to the unforgettable portraits created by Twain.

Mark Twain

1835–1910

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (‘Mark Twain’), was born in Florida, Missouri November on 30 1835. A printer first, and afterwards a Mississippi pilot, he adopted his pseudonym from a well-known call of the man sounding the river in shallow places (Mark Twain meaning ‘by the mark two fathoms’). In 1861 he tried silver-mining in Nevada; next edited for two years the Virginia City Enterprise; in 1864 moved to San Francisco. In 1867 he visited France, Italy and Palestine, gathering material for his Innocents Abroad (1869), which established his reputation as a humorist. He was afterwards an editor at Buffalo, New York, where he married Miss Langdon, a lady of wealth. Later he removed to Hartford, Connecticut and joined a publishing firm which failed, but largely recouped his losses by lecturing and writing. He died on 21 April 1910. Among his books are Tom Sawyer (1876), A Tramp Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, More Tramps Abroad, What is Man (1910).