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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Series: Tom Sawyer (2)

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Signet Classic (1987), Paperback, 288 pages

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Huckleberry is a free man, his friend is Tom Sauyer.
He lived with Widow Douglas but he didn't like this house's life.
One day, he met a slave called Jim, they traveled together.
I think Huckleberry is good boy because he cares his friends.
I am envious of him because he is free. Their adventure looks pleasant. I want to travel around the world. ( )
  anjera | Dec 10, 2009 |
This story is about friendship between boy and slave man.Main character is Finn.And his friend name is Jim.They drift in the MississippiRiver.I think this story's theme is racial discrimination and religion.It's very important thing which I think about.
  jeanas1s | Dec 9, 2009 |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a sequel to Tom Sawyer, except told from Huck Finn’s point of view.



In this book, Huck escapes from his town, bringing Jim, a runaway slave, with him. They meet up with the King (who is not a king), and the Duke(who is not a duke). They were actually Con men who tried to get Jim and Huck to believe that the were royalty, which Huck absolutely did not believe.



Once the king and the duke play a big prank to rob the family of a dead man of his money. Huck Finn must chose between right and wrong. It’s easier and safer to keep quiet about the ordeal (what ordeal????????), but the right thing to do would be to tattle. Huck does the right thing.



Huck starts to wonder about helping Jim escape. It was a bad thing he did according to the public. He knew that the right thing to do would be to turn Jim in. But he decides to Hell with the public, he was Jim’s friend and he wasn’t letting him down.



Unfortunately, the king and the duke turn Jim in for the money. Jim is imprisoned in a town jail. This just happened to be the same town that his friend Tom Sawyer’s other aunt lived in. She mistook Huck for Tom, and he goes along with it. Then the real Tom comes and he’s all for pretending and says that he’s Tom’s brother, Sid Sawyer.



Huck and Tom are also trying to break Jim out of jail. They do it in the most unnecessarily elaborate, and imaginative way, cuz that’s just Tom’s way. This way takes several weeks.



They finally get Jim out, but they get found out, and Jim is re-jailed. As it turns out, Jim’s owner died and set him free in her will, and Tom knew it the whole time, and was trying to have fun.



I think that Mark Twain wrote to show people about choosing between right and wrong. Huck must make this decision many times though the book, and I think it is safe to say that he mostly chooses right.
  Elferkid | Dec 9, 2009 |
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 |
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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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