Recounts the Adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Salinger -- Huckleberry Finn , like the river which flows through its pages, is one of the great sources which nourished and still nourishes the literature of America..
Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to J.
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Influencing subsequent generations of writers -- from Sherwood Anderson to Twain\'s fellow Missourian, T.
S.
Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain\'s story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice.
Recounts the Adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft