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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Series: Tom Sawyer (2)

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I had to read this book for school, and I detested it. I couldn't understand a damn word. Maybe I'll appreciate later in life when I don't have to write essays on the symbolism. ( )
  Awesomeness1 | Nov 24, 2009 |
This book, listed as one of the classics, is about a mischievious boy with his antics and adventures. His adventures are of running away from his alcoholic father and setting a runaway slave free. This book features the noble side of Huck when he made the famous decision that he would go to hell over returning his slave friend back to slavery.
  Girlz4God | Nov 23, 2009 |
Mehr als ein Jugendbuch - ein amerikanischer Klassiker: Wer kennt ihn nicht, den rebellischen Teenager mit dem großen Strohhut? Doch in "Huckleberry Finns Abenteuern" steckt viel mehr als ein harmloses Kinderbuch, das kleine Jungs mit der Welt der Abenteuer in Berührung bringt. Mark Twains zweites Buch (nach "Tom Sawyers Abenteuern") über den jugendlichen, von der heuchlerischen Gesellschaft abgestoßenen Huckleberry Finn ist nicht nur abenteuerlich, sondern stellenweise auch sehr zivilisationskritisch und geradezu düster. Es geht um Sklaverei, den Wert eines Menschen, um Lüge und Betrug, um moralisches Handeln und um echte Freundschaft. Es ist nicht nur die Südstaaten-Romantik, die Mark Twain ironisiert, sondern auch seine mit spitzer Feder gezeichneten Porträts der Menschen in Illinois und Arkansas, die den Roman zu einem authentischen Ausschnitt einer eher düsteren Epoche der Vereinigten Staaten machen. Aus der Perspektive des jugendlichen Helden bekommt die Welt etwas Magisches, und Twain gelingt es mit leichter Hand, Selbstverständlichkeiten durch die naiv-beobachtende Weltsicht von Huck Finn zu demontieren. Am Schluss der Reise auf dem Mississippi steht der amerikanischste aller amerikanischen Begriffe mit einem großen Ausrufezeichen: Freiheit!
  r1hard | Nov 22, 2009 |
This book is sequal of 'Adventure of Tom Sawyer'.
Huckleberry finn is freind of Tom Sawyer.
Huckleberry finn was get a lot of money.
But he wasn't happy life...

When I read this story,I was very exciting.
I thought his life was so fantastic!! ( )
  pear | Nov 20, 2009 |
What I think of this book? I wish I would have read it years ago! This story of a boy growing up, going on adventures, and friends just plain made me smile! :) ( )
  Krissa7 | Nov 19, 2009 |
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Mark Twain may be called the Edison of our literature. There is no limit to his inventive genius, and the best proof of its range and originality is found in this book, in which the reader's interest is so strongly enlisted in the fortunes of two boys and a runaway negro that he follows their adventures with keen curiosity, although his common sense tells him that the incidents are as absurd and fantastic in many ways as the "Arabian Nights."
 
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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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