"Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.”The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a timeless American Classic by internationally acclaimed author, Mark Twain. Today, however, there is a great deal of controversy regarding whether or no...
I've read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn many times. First as a teenager, then as a young man in college and until last week, as a thirty-something adult. Each reading brought new insights about Twain's take on the American experience. He created unforgettable and timeless characters, the likes ...
Huh. This was the first time reading Huck Finn for me. Huck's keen observations while maintaining a lot of innocent was good. The humor was good. I want to write a fanfic for the two fraudsters, of course. They're practically canon. However: Yeah, the end was totally a cop out. Twain lost his nerve ...
The introduction to the Norton Critical Edition notes: "Originally, Huck's adventures were banned from public libraries and schools for being crude and using bad grammar. Now the issue is racism." In putting the criticisms in context and modern responses to it, I found the Norton Critical Edition va...
This book was one which I could (and did) take my time with. I read it while I relaxed and chose nothing better to do than read of the olden days of adventures with characters who had imaginations of adventure. This book is magical, the prose unparallelled, and the detail so well presented that I fo...
It was easy to imagine myself as Huck Finn as a kid even though my life bared little obvious resemblance to his. However, my childhood was one of freedom and adventure and I felt like I had found a literary soul brother in Huck as I read about his adventures. While mine weren't on the scale of hi...
It was easy to imagine myself as Huck Finn as a kid even though my life bared little obvious resemblance to his. However, my childhood was one of freedom and adventure and I felt like I had found a literary soul brother in Huck as I read about his adventures. While mine weren't on the scale of hi...
It was easy to imagine myself as Huck Finn as a kid even though my life bared little obvious resemblance to his. However, my childhood was one of freedom and adventure and I felt like I had found a literary soul brother in Huck as I read about his adventures. While mine weren't on the scale of hi...
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