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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is an abridged version. It's narrated by Garrison Keillor, and that's what made it such a pleasure. 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. Better actually then Tom Sawyer, more adventuresome. 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. 0.123 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
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) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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PS: Thanks to my long-ago English teachers who first helped me get into this book! (