Main Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
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Author: Twain, Mark
First Published: 1884
Publisher Used for Citing: Project Gutenberg
Type: Fiction
Period: 19th Century

I got an old tin lamp and an iron ring, and went out in the woods and rubbed and rubbed till I sweat like an Injun, calculating to build a palace and sell it; but it warn't no use, none of the genies come.


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Author-Twain Mark Title-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Year-1884 Period-19th Century Type-Fiction Publisher-Project Gutenberg

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