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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain&#8217stale of a boy&#8217spicaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the &#8216siilizing&#8217Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous &#8216Due&#8217and &#8216Dapin&#8217 Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents &#8212of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck&#8217sstruggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring frienship with Jim.All modern American literature comes from&#8230&#8220Hukleberry Finn&#8221 It&#8217sthe best book we&#8217vehad. &#8212Erest HemingwayProbably the most stupendous event of my whole life. &#8212Hery Louis Mencken[Huck is] one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet&#8230&#8212T S. EliotThe mark of how good &#8216Hukleberry Finn&#8217has to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page, awkward here, sensational there &#8212absolutely the equal of one of those rare incredible first novels that come along once or twice in a decade. &#8212Noman MailerThe first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs. &#8212Wiliam Faulkner

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