Children's Fiction TWAIN Summary: Introduction by George
Saunders Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto,
Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx "All modern American
literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry
Finn ," Ernest Hemingway wrote. "It's the best book we've had."
A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the
start (it was banished from the Concord library shelves in
1885), it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in
flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from
slavery, pilot their raft through treacherous waters, surviving
a crash with a steamboat and betrayal by rogues. As Norman
Mailer has said, "The mark of how good Huckleberry Finn has to
be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern
American novels and it stands up page for page." Question about
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