The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Cliffsnotes Collection

Bruce, Robert

ISBN 10: 1469230852 ISBN 13: 9781469230856

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2012

Synopsis

In the study Guide:• Learn about the Life and Background of Mark Twain• Hear an Introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn• Explore themes, character development, and recurring images in the Critical Commentaries• Learn new words from the Glossary at the end of each Chapter• Examine in-depth Character Analyses• Acquire an understanding of The Adventutres of Huckleberry Finn with Critical Essays• Reinforce what you learn to further your study online at www.cliffsnotes.comClassic Novel in Audio:Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain 1835-1910When we first met "the pariah of the village . . .the son of the drunkard" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom was "under strict orders not to play with him", so he played with him every time he got the chance. Twain took his most outrageous and outcast character (and perhaps the one he loved the most), Huckleberry Finn, from the book and wrote his own Adventures.This giant work, in addition to entertaining boys and girls for generations, has defined the first-person novel in America, and continues to demand study, inspire reverence and stir controversy in our time.

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A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and elicits controversy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought to be lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a fuller understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.

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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn, It's the best book we've had. --Ernest Hemingway

The invention of this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension to our literature. It is a language capable of poetry. --Robert Penn Warren

Edition details

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1469230852
• ISBN 13: 9781469230856
• Binding: Audio CD