num_pages: 464
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. (front flap)
language: English
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
titlecomplete: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
characters: Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, Jim Upton, Huckleberry Finn
genres: Classics, Adventure, Young Adult, Novels, High School, School, Read For School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1248883
places: Missouri, St. Petersburg, Missouri, Hannibal, Missouri, Mississippi River, The United States of America
series: Adventures of Tom and Huck
publisher: Oxford University Press