Book description
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular…
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1 author picked Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is an American classic.
It tells the story of young Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim (and many, many others) as they flee the law and escape down the mighty Mississippi, one of the world’s greatest rivers. It is an epic journey that changes the lives of everyone the river (and those who live beside it) touches.
Since it is one of the first novels told in the vernacular of its time and place, Ernest Hemingway believed all books that were written after owed a debt of gratitude to Mark Twain and this book. Regardless, once I began…
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