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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.

Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pap, and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.

“All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” wrote Ernest Hemingway. “It's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”T.S. Eliot was another writer who celebrated the genius of this novel. He acknowledged that Twain was “one of those writers, of whom there are not a great many in any literature, who have discovered a new way of writing, valid not only for themselves but for others.”This illustrated edition includes original sketches by E. W. Kemble who was admired and personally selected by Mark Twain. “This batch of pictures is most rattling good,” said Twain when he saw the early sketches. “They please me exceedingly.”‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is one of the great Amercian novels and is the most taught work of literature in American schools.READERS’ REVIEWS:“A book that celebrates the lost world of childhood, the space and mystery of the midwest. A defining class of American literature.” – The Guardian, The 100 Best Novels“I adored this book at age 7 and I continue to adore it as an adult, for each time I read Huck Finn something different and important is revealed to me. I can't recommend this book highly enough.”“A must-read if you love American literature.”“‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ remains the quintessential American novel. It is an amazingly well-crafted piece of work, as complex or as simple as you want it to be.“A captivating story with vibrant and unforgettable characters. It is, and always will be, an American classic.”

“All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” wrote Ernest Hemingway. “It's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”T.S. Eliot was another writer who celebrated the genius of this novel. He acknowledged that Twain was “one of those writers, of whom there are not a great many in any literature, who have discovered a new way of writing, valid not only for themselves but for others.”This illustrated edition includes original sketches by E. W. Kemble who was admired and personally selected by Mark Twain. “This batch of pictures is most rattling good,” said Twain when he saw the early sketches. “They please me exceedingly.”‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is one of the great Amercian novels and is the most taught work of literature in American schools.READERS’ REVIEWS:“A book that celebrates the lost world of childhood, the space and mystery of the midwest. A defining class of American literature.” – The Guardian, The 100 Best Novels“I adored this book at age 7 and I continue to adore it as an adult, for each time I read Huck Finn something different and important is revealed to me. I can't recommend this book highly enough.”“A must-read if you love American literature.”“‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ remains the quintessential American novel. It is an amazingly well-crafted piece of work, as complex or as simple as you want it to be.“A captivating story with vibrant and unforgettable characters. It is, and always will be, an American classic.”

Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. Eliot called Huck "one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet."

The great American writer Ernest Hemingway, had this to say about Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: "All modern, literature, stems from this one book." In this quintessential American novel, Tom Sawyer's best friend, Huckleberry Finn, travels down the Mississippi River on a raft with a slave named Jim, getting himself in and out of danger along the way.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger", despite strong arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist.

The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the shore of the Mississippi. Huckleberry "Huck" Finn and his friend, Tom Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adventures. Huck is placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her stringent sister, Miss Watson, are attempting to "sivilize" him and teach him religion. Finding civilized life confining, his spirits are raised somewhat when Tom Sawyer helps him to escape one night past Miss Watson's slave Jim, to meet up with Tom's gang of self-proclaimed "robbers." Just as the gang's activities begin to bore Huck, he is suddenly interrupted by the reappearance of his shiftless father, "Pap"...Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

Hailed as a great American novel, the book describes the adventures of Huck Finn and a runaway slave Jim, down the Mississippi river. The series of escapades and situations and the journey down the river is truly a voyage. Mark Twain brilliantly etches the contemporary American society, he also captures the comedy, terror, resilience and spontaneity of boyhood.

One of the greatest treats in all world literature, this masterpiece from Mark Twain is revolutionary. It offers both brilliant humor and tragedy as Huck and Jim explore moral dilemmas of slavery and freedom. Huck, the narrator, is shrewd, ingenious, and literalhe reports on everything he sees, which allows the listener to experience the hypocrisy of sivilization. This superb reading by Patrick Fraley is rich in the color and adventurous spirit of the Mississippi River. It captures the world and people that Mark Twain knew and loved.