The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #15]

by Mark Twain, Centaur Classics

Overview

"All modern American literature comes from… ‘Huckleberry Finn’. It's the best book we've had." —Ernest Hemingway
"Probably the most stupendous event of my whole life." —Henry Louis Mencken
"[Huck is] one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet…" —T. S. Eliot
"The mark of how good ‘Huckleberry Finn’ has to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page, awkward here, sensational there — absolutely the equal of one of those rare incredible first novels that come along once or twice in a decade." —Norman Mailer
"The first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." —William Faulkner

Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Daupin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents — of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring frienship with Jim.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788892537200
Publisher:	Mark Twain
Publication date:	01/06/2016
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	555,737
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut