Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Oxford World's Classics)

About this book

Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed as H.L. Mencken put it as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic attack on racism American-style Twains story of what he once called a "sound heart" triumphing over a "deformed conscience" is poignant powerful and fresh. It is no wonder that this extraordinary book continues to captivate readers around the world. This handsome Oxford Worlds Classic edition uses the reliable 1885 text and includes in-depth up-to-date editorial apparatus.