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Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn , the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American fiction that followed it, is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a tremendous parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679405844
ISBN-139780679405849
eBay Product ID (ePID)199304
Product Key Features
Publication Year1991
TopicClassics, Literary, Action & Adventure
Book TitleTom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn : Introduction by Miles Donald
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorMark Twain
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3in
Item Length8.3in
Item Weight22.3 Oz
Item Width5.3in
Additional Product Features
LCCN91-053010
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain calledHuckleberry Finn. . . All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Ernest Hemingway "As characters Tom and Huck have become American myths (a form of transubstantiation achieved by remarkably few fictional creations in the last hundred years), and that very fact indicates that whatever distinctions are made between the two novels, and however many reservations are cited about either or both, Twain possessed extraordinary imaginative power." from the Introduction by Miles Donald, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn . . . All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Ernest Hemingway "As characters Tom and Huck have become American myths (a form of transubstantiation achieved by remarkably few fictional creations in the last hundred years), and that very fact indicates that whatever distinctions are made between the two novels, and however many reservations are cited about either or both, Twain possessed extraordinary imaginative power." from the Introduction by Miles Donald
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal813/.4
Lc Classification NumberPs1306.A1 1991A
Number of Pages600 Pages