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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is generally acclaimed as one of the supreme masterpieces of American literature. The product of Mark Twain's prime, it was written eight years after the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is a more accomplished and a more serious work of art. It is also a keener realistic portrayal of regional character and frontier experience on the Mississippi River. Not only the literary critics but generations of readers young and old have been intrigued by the story, sympathetically recall Huck's escape from his drunken, brutal father to the island in the river, where he meets up with the teenage runaway slave Jim. Here is an American classic that captures the sounds, the rhythms, and the smells of life in the great central waterway of our continent. Mark Twain's penetrating social commentary-utilizing his well-honed tools of humor and realism - reveals the corruption, moral decay, and intelluctual impoverishment of the time and place. And it is all viewed through the sharp… Read more