The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Surely the man who created the least literate, most rebellious, and most happily ignorant character in American Lit would appreciate the irony. He might even crack wise at the serious sermonizers and pretentious pontificators lauding his deeply flawed novel as the prodigious. Of all people, Mark Twain would know a sham when he saw one. Even taken in the context of the day, this novel's glaring inadequacies and blunders are hard to miss.

But then, he would also recognize the American-ness of the response, as well, the salesman's spiel, the overblown praise, the pumped up pomposity, the urgent, if insecure, need to apply superlatives. I feel so lucky to have found these books I got the Tom Sawyer companion book, too. The gift shop in Hannibal was selling the set in a pristine, brand new binding, etc.

I just couldn't justify the cost. But when I found these books from the original or so printing in these lovely sleeves, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. And, combined, the two were cheaper than Hannibal's offering! What a great book. Having used the 7th edition often, this was a pleasant update to the old edition with updated photos, easier navigation of pages, and overall just a fantastic resource that Im sure everyone involved with neurosurgery for years has been using. The book in my opinion just feels cleaner with a better layout and color coding scheme that helps once you have used it a few times to quickly navigate an otherwise complex load of information.

Cant really speak to how great the book is as I am still new to the field, but has proven itself time and time again for me in the short time owning it to be a great companion for rounds, pimp questions, quickly refreshing prior to cases etc The chapter numbers seem to get off my Kindle version is not bad. The chapter numbers seem to get off my 1 at some point for Tom Sawyer, but didn't seem to be missing text. I bought the Kindle version to read when I don't have the book another publisher with both books as well.

Other than the chapter numbers, it was a good format - although not much to get wrong I guess. I think most physical books have a few maps and fancy fonts on some parts, but that's not vital to the story. As far as the stories go, I've read both at least a couple of times when they were required reading in middle school and later. Tom Sawyer the book is fun without much meaning, except the joys of childhood. However, I didn't realize how annoying the character of Tom Sawyer was - seems to be the Bart Simpson of the time.

Huck Finn was the annoying one before, but as an adult I realize how smart and moral he was, especially for his time and situation. Huck Finn the book is great too, but with much more symbolism and message, if you can get past the chapters with Tom going on and on about doing the adventure right. See all 3, reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Set up a giveaway.

Customers who viewed this item also viewed. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Pages with related products. See and discover other items: There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Dana Ivey and along with the runaway slave: Vance wanted for reward , they travel down the muddy Mississipi river , as they take a risked raft. While working on life for his unsentimental education , as a deep friendship emerges and getting into all sorts of adventures and suffering hard times in pre-civil war.

Both of whom deal with the violent feud between the Grangerford and Shepherdson. As well as the arrival of the con actors Duke: Robbie Coltrane and King: Jason Robards posing as two wealthy heirs of a deceased brother , then things begin to liven up. Top-notch cast makes this an entertaining version , giving splendid interpretations. Elijah Wood provides a nice performance as the resourceful and cheeky artful dodger. Although some material , including gothic elements , a lynch mob , a brutal father , a violent pursuit and grisly death of a little boy may be too strong for inmature kiddies.

The movie packs a sensitive and thrilling musical score by Bill Conti. And a colorful though some dark cinematography by Janusz Kaminski, Steven Spielberg usual cameraman. The motion picture was efficiently but unexceptionally directed by Stephen Sommers. Visit Prime Video to explore more titles. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. In Missouri, during the s, young Huck Finn fearful of his drunkard father and yearning for adventure, leaves his foster family and joins with runaway slave Jim in a voyage down the Mississippi River toward slavery free states.

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Our Favorite Trailers of the Week. Old movie want to watch. My Favorite Book Adaptations. Movies I Gave a "3". It was because my heart wasn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I wa "I about made up my mind to pray; and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of boy I was, and be better. I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to [Jim's: You can't pray a lie -- I found that out It was a close place.

I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: View all 15 comments. May 25, Evgeny rated it it was amazing Shelves: Review updated on Ask any person anywhere in the world to give an example of a classic book of US literature and it is a safe bet this one will come out among the top three.

The only reason I am going to mention the plot for such famous book is the fact that I always do it; I am not breaking my own tradition in this case.

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So an orphan boy and a runaway slave travel together in Southern US. One of the most interesting parts of the book for me was gradual change in Huck's attitude towar Review updated on One of the most interesting parts of the book for me was gradual change in Huck's attitude towards Jim: There is an obvious anti-racist message in the book.

It also happens to have very funny laugh-out-loud moments. It also contains satirical depiction of some aspects of life in small US cities in the early nineteenth century. It contains some very poetic descriptions at times. It also has some sad moments. It is a classic book which is also still fun to read unlike numerous classics I can think of. This is a book which teaches important lessons while still remembering that reading can be fun. The book is written in the first person vernacular. This is really the only example I can think of where it works.

It took a genius of Mark Twain to pull it off successfully. If an inspiring author who thinks about using first or third person vernacular stumbles upon my review my advice would be - do not, unless you think your writing talent is on the same level as that of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The author wrote the novel in such a way that it became controversial countless number of times resulting in its banning it from public libraries and censorship. One would think people would get over these controversies by now, but to nobody's surprise some people still find things in the book to be offended at, just take a look at the latest example: I will try to explain to the easily offended hypocrites why they are wrong in the least brain taxing way possible using simple ASCII art: This gives me an excellent opportunity to talk about limited copyright terms it seems to me we are heading for unlimited extension of copyright.

Limited copyright term means that regardless of current political climate and resulting censorship we will always have access to a legal unaltered copy of the book as in this case: A lot of people do not appreciate the book because they were forced to read it in high school. If this was your only reading by all means give it another try to get a fresh prospective. In conclusion this novel belongs to a relatively rare category of classics consisting of books that do not feel like you do heavy manual labor while you read them.

My rating is 4. The original illustrations are excellent. Project Gutenberg has a copy with original illustrations. View all 33 comments. View all 17 comments. Jul 18, Nayra. View all 5 comments. It is a direct sequel t It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. View all 3 comments. Nov 19, Madeline rated it really liked it Shelves: I mean, I understand why they didn't giving middle schoolers an excuse to throw around racial slurs in a classroom setting is just asking for a lawsuit from somebody's parents , but Huck Finn is better. It's smarter, it's funnier, and Huck's adventures stay with you a lot longer than Tom's, because Huck's experiences were richer and more interesting, whereas The Advent I had to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in middle school, and I fervently wish that they had made us read Huck Finn instead.

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It's smarter, it's funnier, and Huck's adventures stay with you a lot longer than Tom's, because Huck's experiences were richer and more interesting, whereas The Adventures of Tom Sawyer could easily have been titled The Adventures of an Entitled Little Asshole. If Tom had to go through half of what happens to Huck in this story, he'd be balled up in the corner crying after five minutes. The action of Huck Finn is set in motion when Huck's father shows up and decides that he's going to be responsible for his son now the story picks up right where Tom Sawyer left off, with Huck and Tom becoming rich, hence Finn Sr.

Huck's father essentially kidnaps him, taking him to a cabin in the middle of nowhere and getting drunk and beating his son. Huck escapes by faking his own death and it's awesome and begins traveling up the Mississippi river. He runs into Jim, a slave who belonged to the Widow Douglas's sister. Jim overheard his owner talking about selling him, so he decided to run away and try to go north.

Huck, after some hesitation, goes with him. From this point, the structure of the book closely mirrors Don Quixote: On their travels, Huck and Jim encounter con men, criminals, slave traders, and in the best mini-story in the book a family involved in a Hatfields-and-McCoys-like feud with a neighboring clan. The story comes full circle when Tom Sawyer shows up and joins Jim and Huck for the last of their adventures, and the best part of this is that Tom Sawyer's overall ridiculousness becomes obvious once we see him through Huck's eyes.

Huck is a great narrator, and I think one of the reasons I liked this book more than its counterpart was because it's narrated in first person, and so Huck's voice is able to come through clearly in every word. In addition to the great stories, there are also some really beautiful descriptions of the Mississippi river, as seen in this passage about the sun rising on the river: A fun, deceptively light series of stories that's funny and sad when you least expect it.

Well done, The List - you picked a good one, for once. Oh, I get it. You want me to talk about the racism, right? You want me to discuss how Huck views Jim as stolen property instead of a person and criticize the frequent use of the N-Word and say "problematic" a lot, right? I'm not getting involved in that, because it's stupid and pointless, and I'm just going to let Mark Twain's introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn speak for itself, and the work as a whole: View all 22 comments. I vaguely recall a primary school teacher abruptly halting a class read-aloud session, perhaps because of that.

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Was it the air of earnest solemnity that surrounds so-called classics? Savour that wonderful opening paragraph and tell me you can't hear Holden Caulfield in the cadences: That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Everything to come is in those opening lines, penned in that distinct, nearly illiterate yet crudely poetic voice.

The outlines of the plot should be familiar: Huck, a scrappy, barely literate boy, flees his abusive, alcoholic father by faking his death and travelling the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers with Jim, an escaped slave, on a raft. Huck's gradual awakening to Jim's plight is subtle and touching, never sentimental. In a sense the book chronicles his growing conscience. And the colourful characters he and Jim meet and the adventures they have add up to a fascinating, at times disturbing look at a conflicted, pre-Civil War nation. We meet a Hatfields vs. McCoys type situation; a group of rapscallions who put on a vaudeville-style act and try to fleece rubes; a scene of desperation and danger on a collapsed boat.

We witness greed, anger and most of the other deadly sins — all from a little raft on the Mississipi. And then comes a passage like this: When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sun-shiny; the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs and flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone; and if a breeze fans along and quivers the leaves it makes you feel mournful, because you feel like it's spirits whispering — spirits that's been dead ever so many years — and you always think they're talking about YOU.

You can see, hear and feel what he's describing. Hard to believe this was written more than years ago. In the book's closing pages, Huck tells us this: Well, gosh, Huck, it war worth all yer trouble. View all 36 comments. Mar 03, Fabian rated it really liked it. No wonder the Spanish think themselves superior with their Quixote, undoubtedly a blueprint for this mischievous Every Boy!

Everyone in town thinks Huck dead, and what does he do but follow the tradition of a plot folding unto itself as Don Q finds his story become medi THE Greatest American Novel? Everyone in town thinks Huck dead, and what does he do but follow the tradition of a plot folding unto itself as Don Q finds his story become medieval pop culture in Part II of that superior novel as he disguises himself as a little girl and tries to squeeze information out of some lady about his myth-in-the-making trek. It seems everyone cares for this vagrant, a perpetual Sancho to Tom Sawyer's Quixote, whose redeemable features include a pre-transcendental openmindedness and an inclination to live only in the NOW.

But the narrator, a very unreliable one at that, surrounds himself with bad bad men, playing the role of accomplice often, always safe and sound under the dragon's wing. The humor is obvious, but I have to admit that this picaresque novel about a boy who avoids "sivilization" at all costs is beaten mercilessly by a more modern, therefore more RELEVANT tale of the South, "Confederacy of Dunces. View all 10 comments. Nov 21, Manny rated it it was amazing Shelves: One of my absolute favourite books, which I have read multiple times. If at all possible, get an edition with the original illustrations.

In fact, I'm embarrassed to admit that I hadn't even heard of it until Jordan gave me a few pointers earlier today. So, no doubt all this has been sa One of my absolute favourite books, which I have read multiple times. So, no doubt all this has been said before, but I still can't resist the temptation to add my two centimes worth. In case you're as ignorant as I was about hot topics in the literary world, the furore concerns an edition of Huckleberry Finn in which the word 'nigger' has been systematically replaced with 'slave'. My initial response was plain surprise.

One of the aspects of the book I enjoy most is Twain's appallingly exact ear for dialogue. He's reproducing the language actually used in the American South of the s, and this, above all, is what gives the novel its force; so why on earth would anyone want to change it? For example, here's Huck's Paw in full flow: There was a free nigger there from Ohio -- a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there ain't a man in that town that's got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane -- the awfulest old gray-headed nabob in the State.

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They said he was a p'fessor in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain't the wust. They said he could vote when he was at home. Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that nigger vote, I drawed out.

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I says I'll never vote agin. Them's the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me -- I'll never vote agin as long as I live. And to see the cool way of that nigger -- why, he wouldn't a give me the road if I hadn't shoved him out o' the way. I says to the people, why ain't this nigger put up at auction and sold? And what do you reckon they said? Why, they said he couldn't be sold till he'd been in the State six months, and he hadn't been there that long yet. There, now -- that's a specimen. They call that a govment that can't sell a free nigger till he's been in the State six months.

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Here's a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet's got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a hold of a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free nigger. I'm sorry, but I'm honestly unable to see how anyone could think the above passage was racist or might be improved by substituting 'slave' for 'nigger'.

It's incidents like this which create the popular European myth that Americans don't understand the concept of irony. If you're curious to know more about the tradition of improving great works of literature by removing dubious words, you might want to take a quick look at the Wikipedia article on Thomas Bowdler which Jordan and I were giggling over.

Bowdler, it turns out, had acted from the best of motives. When he was young, his father had entertained him by reading aloud from Shakespeare; but Later, Bowdler realised his father had been extemporaneously omitting or altering passages he felt unsuitable for the ears of his wife and children. Bowdler felt it would be worthwhile to present an edition which might be used in a family whose father was not a sufficiently "circumspect and judicious reader" to accomplish this expurgation himself.

He undertook to create a suitably amended version. Or, to be exact, he got his sister to do it and then gave out the books under his own name. Again, his reasons were unimpeachable: I won't criticise Dr Bowdler or his equally well-meaning modern followers.

I just think it's a shame Mark Twain never had the opportunity to write a story about them. View all 21 comments. If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review. View all 4 comments. Pretty good, kinda silly - but I think that is what Twain was going for - 3. Twain is the king of the Yarn.

Huckleberry Finn is a collection of outlandish tales all with lies and trickery at their heart.

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At the time of its release I am sure it became a bible for scoundrels and mischevious teens. This book is controversial, and even frequently banned, because of its portrayal of black slaves and the use of the N-word. I venture into shaky ground here by offering my opinion as I am white, bu Pretty good, kinda silly - but I think that is what Twain was going for - 3.

I venture into shaky ground here by offering my opinion as I am white, but I don't think I will cause too much trouble. I can accept that at the time of writing the words and language were fairly normal so as a time period piece it is true. However, I can't say I have read a book that takes place in that time period that so flippantly tosses the n-word around.

Regarding banning of this book - I can definitely tell why some parents might be concerned about their kids reading this book. I think a lot of it depends on how it is being taught - I would hope the teacher would put an emphasis on explaining the language being used. View all 12 comments.