The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
by Mark Twain
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Author: Mark TwainBrand: Penguin Group USA
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-27
ISBN: 0141321091
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Puffin
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- ISBN13: 9780141321097
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
Book Review: Wonderful Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
The book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is a timeless classic that provides a message to the reader through a huge adventure that Huckleberry Finn encounters. This is actually a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer which only helps explain the beginning of the book a little more clearly. Everything else is a new journey that Huckleberry Finn takes. There are the same characters as in the first book as there are in this book, including Huck's best friend Tom Sawyer. When I first began to read it, I got a little confused about what was going on and having a little trouble starting it, because it had been awhile since I finished Tom Sawyer. However, it didn't take long for Mark Twain to start up an adventure between Huck and Tom. They decide to start a gang where they would rob and murder people. This idea eventually dies off, but I personally thought it humorous that a couple of boys in their teens decide suddenly to begin breaking the law. It really didn't seem that they had a chance from the start to do such a thing. After this, the main story really begins to unwind.
You see, Huck's dad is a bit of a drunk and one who doesn't see the importance of work. They also only meet every once in a while, and Huck is doing just fine living with a lady by the name of Widow Douglas. Every time his dad does come, Huck gets scared of what he might do to him. I find that kind of sad knowing that a son is scared of his own father. Well, it turns out that one day his dad comes wanting to take money Huck had found in the previous book. Huck's father decides that since the judge won't give him the money, he'll prove that he's really the boss of Huck by taking him to live with him in very thick woodlands in a small hut. Huckleberry succeeds to run away one night through a very elaborate scheme and finds himself on an island in the Mississippi River. On that island he meets a runaway slave named Jim. Huck had built a raft too, and both of them decide to run away together. Huckleberry Finn realized he was transporting a runaway illegally. They can only travel at night and there's always the risk that someone will catch them. Not to mention a floating house with a mysterious dead man inside, Huck Finn dressing up as a girl, dangerous currents in the river, and even sneaking on shore into people's houses for supplies and information on what was going on. Each one of these events was both suspenseful and exciting at the same time.
The two were also not on the raft alone the entire time. As time passed, they are joined by two men who thought of themselves as a king and duke. The only thing they're worthy of ruling is a good way to trick people out of their money. Now Jim and Huck are involved in all of their business plans to put on shows and make money. The two men's greed towards money is so great, that they put the lives of all four passengers on the raft in danger by lying to a family who has just experienced a tragic death. They pretend to be the people who are issued the money in the dead man's will. Jim and Huck are really beginning to dislike these men and know how bad they are. Huck then devises another devious plan that has such a high risk to steel back the money and turn in the two liars.
Huck also manages to get himself tangled into an even bigger mess after Jim is finally captured. He's under a disguised name, but under a name and with a family he's closer to than he thinks. The last plan he invests his time into is setting Jim free, which is the most dangerous thing he's ever done. He meets up with Tom Sawyer, and they have one last great undertaking that will keep you flipping the pages of the book. I thoroughly enjoyed this exciting novel and it really gave a message on slavery. I think there's a little something in this book for every reader who likes a good adventure that will keep you asking for more. This book is what everyone says it to be. GREAT!
Summary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
These novels played a unique and lasting role in the development of American literature, and each one remains a beloved and widely read work of fiction. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?arguably a great American novel. Ethan Frome?an enduring rural tragedy. And Moby-Dick or, The Whale?a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception. Now, Penguin Classics is proud to present these three novels in gorgeous graphic packages featuring cover art by some of the most talented illustrators working today.
@declineofwesternsiv Seems like soon as a fella comes into a bit o? money, everyone comes out of the woodworks after?n it.
These ladies wants to sivilize me? More like reverse gold-dig my fame and fortune. @FencinTom: Get me outta here!
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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.
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