Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

<p><b>&#65279;Introduction by George Saunders</b><br> <b>Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant Bernard DeVoto Clifton Fadiman T. S. Eliot and Leo Marx</b><br> &#160;<br> &#65279;&#147;All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called <i>Huckleberry Finn</i>&#148; Ernest Hemingway wrote. &#147;It&#146;s the best book we&#146;ve had.&#148; 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 &#147;The mark of how good <i>Huckleberry Finn</i> 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.&#148;</p>