Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Original en 109814 words First published 1884 United States

Hemingway said it plainly: 'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.' Huck, escaping from his brutal father down the Mississippi on a raft, drifts with Jim, a runaway slave, toward freedom — while the river carries them through con men, feuds, and the comfortable cruelties of the antebellum South. Told in Huck's own vernacular voice, it is the great American novel of conscience: a boy decides, wrongly by the standards he has been taught, to go to hell for his friend.

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