The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Dover Bookshelf

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic American novel by Mark Twain. This hardback edition is part of the Dover Bookshelf series.

Key details

• Author: Mark Twain
• Series: Dover Bookshelf
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 352
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 27 September 2024

Synopsis

H. L. Mencken described discovering this novel as “the most stupendous event of my whole life”, while Ernest Hemingway wrote that “all modern American literature stems from this one book”. T. S. Eliot, meanwhile, placed Huck among fiction’s enduring symbolic figures, alongside names such as Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Hamlet.

Its reputation rests on an imaginative re-creation of boyhood adventures along the Mississippi River, vivid characterisation and a remarkable ear for dialogue. Beneath the storytelling, the book develops serious underlying themes including “natural” man versus “civilised” society, the evils of slavery, and the innate value and dignity of human beings.

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