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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. InCliffsNotes on Huckleberry Finn, you follow the Mississippi River adventures of Mark Twain's mischief-making protagonist Huck Finn and the runaway slave Jim. Just like Huck's makeshift raft, this study guide show more carries you along on his incredible journey by providing chapter summaries and critical analyses on life in the late-19th-century American south. You'll also gain insight into the man behind this American classic--Mark Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of major players A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays A review section that tests your knowledge A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern-day treasure--you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides. show lessTags
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I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that this book helped me get through a high school English class. I hated reading classics (after being traumatized by Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises;" the thought of that book still makes me shudder), so instead of reading this book, I used the Cliff Notes. In my defense, this was the only time I did this (the rest of the time, I just BSd my way through, or skived off on writing the paper). Maybe one of these days I'll actually read the real book. Maybe this year, even.
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- Canonical title
- CliffsNotes on Twain's Huckleberry Finn
- Original publication date
- 1971
- First words
- As one of America's first and foremost realists and humorists, Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he knew about from firsthand experience.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)These small facts lend credence to Huck's view that Tom Sawyer could not possibly help free a slave in the last section of the novel because of Tom's respectability and conformity to the views of his society.
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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- 813.4 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English Later 19th Century 1861-1900
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- PS1305 .B78 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 19th century
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