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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain Alfred Kazin"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote, "It's the best book we've had." A complex masterpiece that has spawned volumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Nigger Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft thrillingly through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat, betrayal by rogues, and the final threat from the bourgeoisie. Informing all this is the presence of the River, described in palpable detail by Mark Twain, the former steamboat pilot, who transforms it into a richly metaphoric entity. Twain's other great innovation was the language of the book itself, which is expressive in a completely original way. "The invention of this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension to our literature," Robert Penn Warren noted. "It is a language capable of poetry."
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain E. W. KembleReferring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. Eliot called Huck "one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet."The novel's preeminence derives from its wonderfully imaginative re-creation of boyhood adventures along the mighty Mississippi River, its inspired characterization, the author's remarkable ear for dialogue, and the book's understated development of serious underlying themes: "natural" man versus "civilized" society, the evils of slavery, the innate value and dignity of human beings, the stultifying effects of convention, and other topics. But most of all, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story ― filled with high adventure and unforgettable characters (including the great river itself) ― that no one who has read it will ever forget.
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain Mcdougal-Littell Publishing StaffTimeless classics of American and world literature are repackaged in these Enhanced Classics editions. From love stories to adventures to addressing the social matters of their day, these immortal books are available for a new generation to study.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain Paul Moliken<p>This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Twain's language, allusions, and deliberate misstatements and malapropisms. <p>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, became an instant success in the year of its publication, 1884, but was seen by some as unfit for children to read because of its language, grammar, and "uncivilized hero." The book has sparked controversy ever since, but most scholars continue to praise it as a modern masterpiece, an essential read, and one of the greatest novels in all of American literature. <p>Twain's satiric treatment of racism, religious excess, and rural simplicity and his accuracy in presenting dialects mark Huck Finn as a classic. His unswerving confidence in Huck's wisdom and maturity, along with the well-rounded and sympathetic portrayal of Jim draw readers into the book, holding them until Huck's last words rejecting all attempts to "sivilize" him.</p>
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: New Edition - Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
by Mark Twain Azar Nafisi R. Kent RasmussenThis new edition of Huckleberry Finn, based on the recently discovered original handwritten manuscript, is destined to become the standard of this American classic. The volume inclues a discussion by Professor Victor Doyno, President of the Twain Circle and the author of a definitive book about the composition of this great novel, who will also conduct interviews across the country. Illustrations. (Literature)
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Mark Twain Robert G. O'MeallyMark Twain’s brilliant 19th-century novel has long been recognized as one of the finest examples of American literature. It brings back the irrepressible and free-spirited Huck, first introduced in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and puts him center stage. Rich in authentic dialect, folksy humor, and sharp social commentary, Twain’s classic tale follows Huck and the runaway slave Jim on an exciting journey down the Mississippi.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain Gary PaulsenThe great American writer Ernest Hemingway, had this to say about Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: "All modern, literature, stems from this one book." In this quintessential American novel, Tom Sawyer's best friend, Huckleberry Finn, travels down the Mississippi River on a raft with a slave named Jim, getting himself in and out of danger along the way.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain Jayne Anne Phillips Padgett PowellThe adventure of a lifetime Tom Sawyeras pal Huck Finn finds himself on the run, floating down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave. With rich description as well as sharp satire, Twain vividly recreates the world he knew as a child.
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain Padgett Powell Jayne Anne PhillipsADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN "Tom Sawyer's Comrade"
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain John SeelyeThese novels played a unique and lasting role in the development of American literature, and each one remains a beloved and widely read work of fiction. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--arguably a great American novel. Ethan Frome--an enduring rural tragedy. And Moby-Dick or, The Whale--a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception. Now, Penguin Classics is proud to present these three novels in gorgeous graphic packages featuring cover art by some of the most talented illustrators working today.
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Classic Adventures)
by Mark Twain Jerry Stemach Joe SchwajkowskiBefore the Civil War, Huck Finn is the motherless son of a derelict father, Huck leaves home, and joins forces with Jim, an adult slave. Written at ability level grades 1-3, interest grade level 5-12, with a Lexile Level of 590L and a Guided Reading Level M, in three formats, Computer Book, Audio Book and Paperback Book. <P>*This textbook has been transcribed in UEB, formatted according to Braille textbook formats, proofread and corrected.
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Great Illustrated Classics Series #Volume 14)
by Mark Twain Malvina VogelThe adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 125th Anniversary Edition: The only authoritative text based on the complete, original manuscript (Mark Twain Library #9)
by Mark TwainThis 125th Anniversary edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is expanded with updated notes and references and a selection of original documents—letters, advertisements, playbills—some never before published, from Twain's first "book tour" to promote its original publication. This is the only edition of Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. It includes all of the illustrations commissioned by Mark Twain, historical notes, a glossary, maps, and selected manuscripts.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Abridged)
by Oliver Ho Mark TwainTwain's beloved tale, with its folksy language, creates an indelible image of antebellum America with its sleepy river towns, con men, family feuds, and a variety of colorful characters.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Abridged)
by Mark TwainA classic story rests in your hands. The characters are famous. The tale is timeless. Although this is not the original version (which you really must read when you're ready for every detail), this Dalmatian Press Children's Classic has been shortened and adapted especially for you. We kept the well-known phrases for you. We kept the author's style. And we kept the important imagery and heart of the tale. Literature is terrific fun! It encourages you to think. It helps you dream. It is full of heroes and villains, suspense and humor, adventure and wonder, and new ideas. It introduces you to writers who reach out across time to say: "Do you want to hear a story I wrote?" Curl up and enjoy.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (abridged)
by Mark Twain Janice GreeneThis book colorfully describes people and places along the Mississippi River as told in first person by Huckleberry Finn, a fictitious character.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adapted Classic)
by Mark Twain Suzanne MccabeA young boy living in mid-nineteenth century Missouri relates the many adventures that he and his friend, an escaped slave, experience as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adapted Version)
by Mark Twain Joanne SuterFreedom is everything to Huckleberry Finn. How can he avoid being civilized by the good-hearted Widow Douglas? But just now Huck has more important things on his mind-like helping his friend Jim escapes the slave-catchers! Book jacket. This adapted version includes Activities/Study Guide.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Related Readings
by Mark Twain Langston Hughes Daniel Fisher Rita Dove Selma Lagerlof Maud Parrish William Stafford Eddy HarrisContents: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (novel by Mark Twain); from Life on the Mississippi (fiction by Mark Twain); The Negro Speaks of Rivers (poem by Langston Hughes); Narrative of Daniel Fisher (autobiography by Daniel Fisher); Three Days of Forest, A River, Free (poem by Rita Dove); The Outlaws (short story by Selma Lagerlof); from Nine Pounds of Luggage (autobiography by Maud Parrish); Freedom (poem by William Stafford); and from Mississippi Solo (travel narrative by Eddy Harris).
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim
by W. Bill Czolgosz Mark TwainFree at last! Free at last! This ain't your grandfather's Huckleberry Finn. It's nineteenth century America and a mutant strain of tuberculosis is bringing its victims back from the dead. Sometimes they come back docile, and other times vicious. The vicious ones are sent back to Hell, but the docile ones are put to work as servants and laborers. With so many zombies on the market, the slave trade is nonexistant. The black man is at liberty, and human bondage is no more. Young Huckleberry Finn has grown up in a world that shuns the N-word, with its scornful eye set on a new class of shambling, putrid sub-humans: The Baggers. When his abusive father comes back into his life, Huck flees down the river with Bagger Jim, seeking a life of perfect freedom. When the pox mutates once again, causing even the tamest of baggers to become bloodthirsty monsters, the boy Finn is forced to question his relationship with his dearest, deadest friend. In this revised take on history and classic literature, the modern age is ending before it ever begins. Huckleberry Finn will inherit a world of horror and death, and he knows the mighty Mississippi might be the only way out...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Broadview Editions)
by Mark Twain Stephen RailtonSamuel Clemens was born in 1835, on the last day of November, in Florida, Missouri. This small, obscure village near the middle of the United States was the starting point for a life of world-wide travel and fame. At age four his family moved to Hannibal, a slightly larger town on the western bank of the great Mississippi River. This was the place to which his imagination would later most often return, but at seventeen he ran away from it to look for his future in larger places. He worked as a typesetter in the East, a riverboat pilot between St. Louis and New Orleans, and a prospector and a reporter in the far West before discovering, on the verge of his thirtieth birthday, that his "call," as he put it in a letter to his family, was "to literature of a low order--i.e. humorous."1 After 1865 he lived alternately in eastern cities such as Buffalo, Hartford, and New York, in various places in Europe, including London, Paris, Vienna, and Florence, and on the road, as a touring lecturer and a travel writer gathering material. As a best-selling author and popular humorist he made a fortune, but never had enough money to satisfy his own ambitions. Over the years he spent more of his time and energy, and too much of his literary earnings, in a series of investments and speculations that promised to make him fabulously rich but instead, in 1894, during one of the American economy's periodic downturns, led to a well-publicized bankruptcy. To repay his creditors, he undertook a lecture tour around the world; the attention and laughter that greeted him wherever he went firmly established his status as America's first international celebrity. Though he was on intimate terms with presidents and corporate tycoons, and received honorary degrees from prestigious universities, common people saw him as one of them. Grateful for the pleasure he had given them, a huge audience shared in his triumphs and sympathized with his tragedies. These included the deaths of three of his four children and of his beloved wife, Olivia Langdon. He called her Livy; she called him Youth. He died on 21 April 1910, in Redding, Connecticut.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn SparkNotes Literature Guide (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series #12)
by SparkNotesThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn SparkNotes Literature Guide by Mark TwainMaking the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying and paper writing. Includes:An A+ Essay—an actual literary essay written about the Spark-ed book—to show students how a paper should be written.16 pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: a glossary of literary termsStep-by-step tutoring on how to write a literary essayA feature on how not to plagiarize
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Thrift Study Edition
by Mark Twain"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It's the best book we've had," declared Ernest Hemingway. Millions of readers around the world would agree, having climbed aboard the raft with young Huck and Jim, the runaway slave, to drift along the Mississippi on a voyage of adventure and self-discovery. This economical two-part edition includes the complete text of Twain's classic novel plus a student-friendly study guide. Created to help the reader quickly gain a thorough understanding of the content and context of Huckleberry Finn, the guide includes: * Chapter-by-chapter summaries* Explanations and discussions of the plot* Question-and-answer sections* Mark Twain biography* List of characters and more Dover Thrift Study Editions feature everything that students need to undertake a confident reading of a classic text, as well as to prepare themselves for class discussions, essays, and exams.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been the subject of much debate since its publication in 1884. The novel has been criticized for its coarse language and racial stereotypes, but it remains a bona fide American classic.