The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer & Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: The Greatest Novels of Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer is an intelligent resourceful orphan who enjoys a life of freedom that is unsheltered from lifes hardships. He is an immediately attractive character who draws the reader through his adventures. Huck Finn is more superstitious and naïve but still an adventurous survivor. Together they engage with their world in this classic coming of age story.What makes these two books classics? Twains characters are surprising unforgettable and truly human. The dialog faithfully reproduces the common speech of his day. Twain explains In this book a number of dialects are used to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary Pike County dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion or by guesswork; but painstakingly and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. The plot combines adventure suspense and mischief with the darker side of humanity: murder deceit brutality and racial prejudice. Twains trademark humor and observations of human nature are never far.Hemingway concludes All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn . . . It is the best book we have.Features of this edition: Complete and unabridgedIncludes 335 original illustrationsCrisp text set in modern easily read font.