'All modern American literature comes from one book by MarkTwain called Huckleberry Finn, ' Ernest Hemingway wrote. 'It's thebest book we've had.' A complex masterpiece that has spawnedvolumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is atheart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from hismurderous father, and Nigger Jim, in flight from slavery, pilottheir raft thrillingly through treacherous waters, surviving acrash with a steamboat, betrayal by rogues, and the final threatfrom the bourgeoisie. Informing all this is the presence of theRiver, described in palpable detail by Mark Twain, the formersteamboat pilot, who transforms it into a richly metaphoric entity.Twain's other great innovation was the language of the book itself,which is expressive in a completely original way. 'The invention ofthis language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension toour literature, ' Robert Penn Warren noted. 'It is a languagecapable of poetry.' "From the eBook edition."
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