Book Review: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Let's get this straight. Mark Twain's best novel is also one of the best books ever written. I'm talking about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884. If you don't want to take my word for it, maybe you'll listen to Ernest Hemingway, who said, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. . . . it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Case closed, right? Simply put, Huckleberry Finn has just about the best of everything: an innocent, unreliable narrator through whom we see Twain's America; a rousing adventure story; and a scathing document against racism and slavery. Of course, it's also funny as hell, and exciting as anything written today. Huckleberry's flight from home, and his journey upon the Mississipi with runaway slave Jim, is the antidote to much of the lame contemporary works published these days.

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