Classic Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn (Audio)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781931953115 (1931953112)
Publish date: March 1st 2002
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature
Series:
Audible version. Elijah Wood's reading is simply fantastic. Unfortunately, this story is not as engaging as I remember from childhood. I understand it has a Purpose, but I suspect I'd have given the book up completely before finishing, had I been reading the print version or had it been performed by...
Twain has a marvelous facility with words; the man could quip. But the stories he wrote seem all off-kilter, the grim beside the whimsical. And much of Huckleberry still doesn't make sense to me, like folktales that haven't yet been filtered through a professional writer's pen. Which is weird, be...