Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Paperback, 392 pages

English language

Published Dec. 17, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

ISBN:: 978-0-395-98078-1
OCLC Number:: 247442475

In addition to the entire text of what some consider the quintessential American novel, this comprehensive volume features materials that help place the novel in perspective with its time and place. "Contexts" includes essays on the composition of the novel, the people and history of the Upper Mississippi Valley, slavery, and the critical reception of the novel upon its publication. "Readings" includes Henry Nash Smith's introduction to the 1958 Riverside Edition of the novel, as well as critical essays.

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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

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Runaway children -- Fiction
Male friendship -- Fiction
Fugitive slaves -- Fiction
Race relations -- Fiction
Boys -- Fiction
Mississippi River -- Fiction
Missouri -- Fiction