num_pages: 244
description: "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 spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the Concord library shelves in 1885), 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 through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat and betrayal by rogues.As Norman Mailer has said, "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."
language: English
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
titlecomplete: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
characters: Huckleberry Finn, Jim Upton, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
genres: Read For School, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, Young Adult, Literature, High School, Classics, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 1248824
places: St. Petersburg, Missouri, The United States of America, Mississippi River, Missouri, Hannibal, Missouri
series: Adventures of Tom and Huck
publisher: The Modern Library