It’s lovely to live on a raft. — Mark Twain

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It’s lovely to live on a raft.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

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Topic

Boat

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Medium

Novel

Time

1884

Person

Mark Twain

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Current citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 19.

Original citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 19.

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