The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
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Author: Mark TwainEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-20
ISBN: 1438245416
Number of pages: 202
Publisher: CreateSpace
Book Reviews of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Book Review: Should be on every school's reading list!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an unbelievably amazing book, an absolute must-read for children and adults alike. Through the years, this book has been misunderstood, misinterpreted, even maligned - hence banned from schools - an absolute travesty! In my humble opinion, there probably has not been a book written in history which encomposses as much of the complicated human condition as this one. I started reading this book at elementary school age and never stopped. One continues to absorb so many different things from it - as a child and as an adult - as if it is a different book every time you read it, and all these things are valuable in their own way. It is hard to relay the value of this book unless you read it, and it should be on every school reading list!
Summary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This is a large (6"x9"), top-quality new edition of Mark Twain's masterpiece. Complete and unabridged. "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It's the best book we've had. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." -Ernest HemingwayMark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.
Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps instantly to mind), this book's humor is found mostly in Huck's unique worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn with the Widow Douglas after she adopts him, Huck says: "After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people." Underlying Twain's good humor is a dark subcurrent of Antebellum cruelty and injustice that makes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a frequently funny book with a serious message.
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