Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain like many great American authors had a distinguished career in the literary industry. This novel comes at the time when the great civil war that ripped the United States into two had come to a close. It was the time when all the emancipated slaves from the south started migrating towards the north and the States started a westward expansion. This story is a realization of present problems and prejudices stilling plaguing in the society.At the start, Twain gives us a joke that the one who tries to find the plot will be killed. It’s an amazing start to the novel. This novel is a grand picture showing us a very broad cross-section of society and its prejudices. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, has now become one of my favorite novels. I read a random line by Ernest Hemingway which said - “This is where the American Literature starts, nothing was before and nothing is as significant since.” Which made me pick up this novel.When I read this novel, I realized that he wasn’t kidding at all. Twain is a genius in putting the tropes of childhood, innocence, growing up, society, and slavery in a single book and binding it through the river. This book is where that little Huckleberry Finn who was the sidekick of Tom Sawyer from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer gets the lead role in the story. Huck’s journey from being naïve to growing up emotionally with the runaway slave Jim, serene beauty of the Mississippi, and the cruel pre-civil war American south keep us locked into the book.This is one of those Great American Novels, the real transcendentalist thought that Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman believed in. But the effort of the reader to find the American character in Huck in the context of a tragedy is heartbreaking for everyone. This book is in every way comparable to Don Quixote, and you will even enjoy reading that too. The two most interesting things in this novel are the usage of first-person perspective contrary to its prequel, which makes it way more immersive and dramatic, and the usage of the ‘n’ word. We again here need to understand that Twain is writing for an audience at his time in the local dialect when the word was commonly used. The ending somewhat makes everyone surprise. I liked the way Twain played the game towards the end but not many may like it. Twain again showed that Tom is always the boss in his friends. This book makes you get bored, fell in love with the characters, laugh with them for Twain’s amazing literary humor, get emotionally connected with them, cry alongside them, and in the end close the book exclaiming how a book can be so beautiful.The book contains every conflict and debate in today’s world. This is contemporary, though not by times but by the societal prejudices. This can be in contention for what America might call a national epic even though it ain’t a poem. This book isn’t a onetime read at all. Do give it a read. You won’t be disappointed. From one angle, it’s a tale of an adventure to find freedom, for Huck it is freedom from civilization, and for Jim, freedom from slavery, it is a picture of a world of prejudices; it is a drama of moral conflict. A world which is filled with smugness, illiteracy, boredom, anarchy, prejudices, bravery, cowardice, and brutality. I would like to conclude by saying that this is a book which contains humor about a completely opposite world.

A direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, this book features the unforgettable iconic Huck Finn. Interesting and adventurous, this book is among my personal favorites.

This book was a more of a roller coaster ride for me. Interesting on most occasions and a bit boring and stretched on some. But really, what great adventures Huck had, especially before meeting the King and the Duke.... Must say, he is very good at making up stories(lies)... But what I am not happy about is the use of too many Vernacular slangs to show the ascent of the characters. At some occasions it was breaking the flow of reading, making it a bit uninteresting.Overall, it was really a good and exciting read with a great surprising twist (about Jim) to end the wonderful story.BTW: The suspense revealed in the last page of the book wasn't a suspense for me at all as I had correctly guessed it at the time the event had occurred.So one bonus point for me here.

In same condition as in shops. Neat and new. Text size is fine and obviously a good storyline.

Hemingway thought that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the inauguration of American literature, so highly did he respect the original voice and narrative genius of Mark Twain, displayed in this, his most famous novel. The story is about young Huck Finn escaping the disciplined life of home and the cruelties of his father, to raft down the Mississippi with an escaped slave, Jim, who belonged to his benefactor's sister, Miss Watson. Their adventures on the river are numerous, some hair-raising, many humorous (such as the charlatans who pretend to be King and Duke in order to dupe people at country fairs). Jim himself provides much entertainment in passages, two of which were read: the 'Sollermun' episode and the Jim's take on good-luck signs. Though he is shown in places as simple-minded and ready to believe in witches, yet Jim has the earthy good-sense of honest working men everywhere. He loves Huck Finn and the love is returned as Huck makes the central decision: whether to turn in Jim as an escaped slave, or let him follow his good-luck to freedom and a family reunion. The fun our group of readers had could be best measured in the laughter ringing out of the library where we meet. Our readers are adept at finding humour in the darkest of novels by employing side narratives of their own, but this novel did not need any external injections of wit whatever. One only had to be open to the abundance of drollery Mark Twain had fashioned, two fathoms deep on every other page.

The cover is good, stiff and smooth. However, the paper quality is below average. The print quality is also average. Overall the book is expensive for the quality it provides.

This review is of the edition Vintage classic library (mass market paperback). I got it in 90₹ and I was so happy until I saw the book. The book I got was clearly old, the pages were all yellow, the binding was wearing off, pages were about to come out, the spine had creases, i’m 100% convinced that it was an old copy. There was no option to replace it so had to return it. But it a beautiful edition, font size is big and size of book is perfect! And price is also affordable! Go for it!

A classic by Mark Twain . It must be read along with Tom Sawyer . The book is simplified from the original edition however, its very simple to read for kids. Huckleberry finn is a sad story about a teen boy who fakes his own death to escape his abusive, drunken father. Wonderful story and true classic!

This book was actually a re-read for me I read it back when I was in high school and I just loved the since of adventure just very well written book and can't wait to read the book to my children even my daughter who is currently 9 had started it at some point. But fair warning it takes place during a time of slavery but it isn't graphic just about a boy who fakes his death runs away and is joined by a run away slave. Clean enough for me to allow my 9 yr old daughter to read it. But if she had any questions I would answer them.

It’s easy to see why this is a world classic! Tom stands for the madness and joy of childhood, with Huckleberry his guileless sidekick. It’s a very good read.

Lu avec de jeunes lecteurs qui ont découvert avec délectation que ces enfants du 19e étaient comme eux, au fond. Un bel aperçu à partager avec des enfants d’aujourd’hui, d’une enfance au fond bien plus libre et insouciante que celle d’aujourd’hui, sans écrans qui coupent du réel… et puis évidement la prose perspicace et à l’humour gentiment moqueur de Twain.

Un clásico

Everybody knows it: this is one of the best novels ever written. Funny, moving, passionate adventure novel, with characters so human and well outlined that it gives the impression that one knows them personally.