The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics)
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain calledHuckleberry Finn. . . All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. Ernest HemingwayAs characters Tom and Huck have become American myths (a form of transubstantiation achieved by remarkably few fictional creations in the last hundred years), and that very fact indicates that whatever distinctions are made between the two novels, and however many reservations are cited about either or both, Twain possessed extraordinary imaginative power. from the Introduction by Miles Donald --Wordsworth Editions--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.