Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Bibliographic Information
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
（The Oxford Mark Twain / Shelley Fisher Fishkin, editor）
Oxford University Press, 1996
- : trade ed
- : lib. ed
Available at 66 libraries
Note
Facsimile reprint. Originally published: New York : Charles L. Webster, 1885
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.... There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." As Toni Morrison notes in her introduction, "some of the stillness, in the beautifully rendered eloquence of a child, is breathtaking." Equally stunning is Twain's satirical critique of the hypocrisies and pretensions of adults. A daringly ironic attack on racism American-style, Twain's story of what he once called a "sound heart" triumphing over a "deformed conscience" is poignant, powerful, and fresh. It is no wonder that this extraordinary book continues to captivate readers around the world.
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