The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Paperback, 394 pages

English language

Published March 9, 1972 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-043018-9
OCLC Number:: 749666902

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 of the American predicament.

--back cover

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 of the American predicament.

--back cover

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matthewmincher@bookwyrm.social reviewed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)

River Adventure

3 stars

I enjoyed this one less.

Huck escaping the intolerable civility of Widow Douglas meets Jim - they aim for freedom down the Mississippi.

Cons, violence, slavery. It's a powerful story of friendship that is often very difficult to read.

I enjoyed this one less.

Huck escaping the intolerable civility of Widow Douglas meets Jim - they aim for freedom down the Mississippi.

Cons, violence, slavery. It's a powerful story of friendship that is often very difficult to read.

Subjects

Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Runaway children -- Fiction
Male friendship -- Fiction
Fugitive slaves -- Fiction
Race relations -- Fiction
Boys -- Fiction
Mississippi River -- Fiction
Missouri -- Fiction