Publisher, Naxos AudioBooks (February 2006)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the comic masterpiece of Samuel Langhorne Clemens who trained as a river-boat pilot (from which experience he took his pen-name, Mark Twain). His most famous book describes a boy's journey down the Mississippi aboard a raft with the runaway black slave Jim. Their escapades in the Deep South before the American Civil War are a joy in themselves but they also direct a searching light on a society where slavery and prejudice are taken for granted and civilisation is hypocritical and corrupt.

About the Performer: Garrick Hagon has appeared in many films including Batman, Star Wars, Cry Freedom, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Fatherland. , His television credits include A Perfect Spy, The Nightmare Years, Henry V, The Chief and Love Hurts. On London's West End he played Chris Keller in All My Sons, and he is a frequent story reader for the BBC. He also performs The Sea-Wolf, The Call of the Wild and Classic American Poetry for Naxos AudioBooks.