William Collins The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Paperback – 1 April 2010

Good quality, fast delivery, but I haven’t read it yet.

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.

Inhaltlich natürlich ein Meisterwerk, darauf gehe ich hier nicht ein.Ich habe mehrere englischsprachige Ausgaben gesichtet und fand diese am besten. Kritik: Mit 22 cm Länge etwas groß fürn Taschenbuch, aber noch im Rahmen. Im Buch sind keine Kommentare, Annotationen oder andere Erläuterungen. Ich persönlich fänd eine Kurzanalyse schön, aber das ist mein persönlicher Wunsch. Positiv: Alle Illustrationen da, bezeichnet und im Fließtext eingebunden. Schriftgröße und Seitenformatierung sehr gut.

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.

This is a review for the 100 anniversary collection. I was very happy with my book. I bought another copy of Huckleberry Finn which was an abridged version and was disappointed. It didn't say it was abridged and that was not what I thought I was getting. This was the original story. :)

These books are great quality and are such a wonderful addition to any book lovers library