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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author), Saunders, George (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 0375757376     ISBN-13: 9780375757372
Publisher: Modern Library
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2001
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Annotation: '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 has spawned volumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, 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 thrillingly through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat, betrayal by rogues, and the final threat from the bourgeoisie. Informing all this is the presence of the River, described in palpable detail by Mark Twain, the former steamboat pilot, who transforms it into a richly metaphoric entity. Twain's other great innovation was the language of the book itself, which is expressive in a completely original way. 'The invention of this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension to our literature, ' Robert Penn Warren noted. 'It is a language capable of poetry.'

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001030218
Age Level: 8-12
Grade Level: 3-7
Lexile Measure: 990 HL (High-Low)
Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.15" W x 8.03" L (0.51 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Cultural Region - Mississippi River Basin
- Geographic Orientation - Mississippi
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - South
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 501
Reading Level: 6.6   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 18.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Introduction by George Saunders
Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx

"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 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."

 
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