Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain, George Saunders

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote. "It's the best book we've had." A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the Concord library shelves in 1885), it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and nigger Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat and betrayal by rogues. As Norman Mailer has said, "The mark of how good Huckleberry Finnhas to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page."

Pages

244

Language

English

Published

2001

Publisher

The Modern Library New York

ISBN

0375757376