The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Huckleberry Finn is now read as a key to the very essence of the American imagination, a central document of our most primitive impulses. . . . Mark Twain was the quintessential American writer, quintessential because was more or less untutoreda natural, as Wright Morris puts it, who learned to write the way a river pilot learns the feel of a channel. Norman Podhoretz, New York Times, 1959 Norman Podhoretz (New York Times 1959) "The best book weve had There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Ernest Hemingway "Truly an American odyssey. . . . It need not be stressed that Mark Twain re-created a full sense of life on the Mississippi. This is undisputed. He wrote with ease and buoyancy; there is humor, sensibility and beauty in his style. But there is real penetration, too. He evokes an entire epoch, which takes on organic shape, form, solidarity, depth." The New York Times

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels the ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and the ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain 'the father of American literature'.