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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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One of my all-time favorite books! Huck's redemption scene - and the fact that he doesn't even know he has saved himself - is the most powerful moment that I know of in American literature. Coming-of-age, travel, friendship, and social commentary: this book gets my nomination for the Great American Novel! Oh - and don;t forget the two greatest rapscallions in American literature: the King and the Duke.

PS: Thanks to my long-ago English teachers who first helped me get into this book! ( )
minnesotadebbie | Jul 8, 2009 |  
This is an abridged version. It's narrated by Garrison Keillor, and that's what made it such a pleasure.
leeinaustin | Jul 4, 2009 |  
Cute story of a boy who runs away from his abusive father to go on an adventure and cause mischief with his friend Tom Sawyer and Jim, the slave.

It’s taken be forever to read this, as I never had to in school, but now that I have I can see why they have you read it when you’re younger and not while you’re in college or even AP English in high school. It’s a good story but not as complex and complicated as some other stories. Perfect for its time. Very enjoyable.
blondierocket | Jun 28, 2009 |  
Better actually then Tom Sawyer, more adventuresome. ( )
charlie68 | Jun 25, 2009 |  
This is a wonderful book that is full of humor and adventure. Heart wrenching characters, beautifully crafted dialogue, as well as social and political issues serve to make this exquisite novel a masterpiece. I personally believe this book to me Twain's best work ever. ( )
Saieeda | Jun 12, 2009 |  
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You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.
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Please keep the Norton Annotated Series books un-combined with the rest of them - it is significantly different with new material, pictures etc.. and it needs to be separate.
The Norton Annotated Series book is not the -- or "a" -- "standard" edition. Rather, it is the complete book, as Twain intended it, taken from the original final MS, half of which was missing for over a century. It is, therefore, a DIFFERENT BOOK IN TEXTUAL CONTENT.
This is the only "comprehensive edition" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Which means: long missing and believed lost for good was the first half (over 600 pages) of Twain's final manuscript of the book. Some years ago it was found, by chance, in a trunk in an attic in California, then reunited with the other half in Buffalo. Upon reading it was found to contain materials that had been excluded by the publisher -- therefore from first edition onward the book was actually not wholly as Twain intended. Those portions are included in this edition (and in a more scholarly Mark Twain Project/Library edition), which makes it a different work than the heretofore "standard" edition/s.
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Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This idyll, intended at first as "a kind of companion to Tom Sawyer", grew and matured under Mark Twain's hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity. Critics have argued over the symbolic significance of Huck's and Jim's voyage down the Mississippi: none has disputed the greatness of the book itself. It remains a work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story, as a classic of American humour, and as a metaphor for the American predicament.

Amazon.com (ISBN 0140366768, Paperback)

A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400)

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