Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain ; foreword, Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; introduction, Toni Morrison ; afterword, Victor A. Doyno.
Edition: Trade edition
Series: The Oxford Mark Twain
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780195101409
Copyright date: 1996
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: 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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Notes: Includes bibliographical references.