Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain ; introduction by George Saunders.
Edition: 2001 Modern Library pbk. ed. (7)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780375757372
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Runaway children -- Fiction; Male friendship -- Fiction; Fugitive slaves -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Mississippi River -- Fiction; Missouri -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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."
--back cover