Huckleberry Finn (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
By Qiliang Feng & Mark Twain
- Release Date: 2015-12-15
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction for Young Adults
This is Book 11, Collection I, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.
Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions.
[Text Information]
Readability | 87.82
Total word count | 34637
Words beyond 1500 | 1382
Unknown word percentage (%) | 3.99
Unknown headword occurrence | 3.7
Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 74
Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 204
[Synopsis]
This book is rewritten from “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, another famous novel by Mark Twain (1835 – 1910).
Huckleberry Finn (Huck) is a clever, kind and brave white boy. He does not like his new life with Widow Douglas and school. Then his drunken father takes him away and locks him in the cabin. Huck escapes and hides himself on Jackson’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River. There, he meets Jim, one of Miss Watson’s slaves. Jim has run away from Miss Watson after hearing her talk about selling him to a farm down the river. That is the beginning of their adventures down the Mississippi River….