The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Sterling Unabridged Classics Series) »

Riverboat pilot, journalist, failed businessman (several times over): Samuel Clemens -- the man behind the figure of Mark Twain -- led many lives. But it was in his novels and short stories that he created a voice and an outlook on life that will be forever identified with the American character.

Winner of the Listen Up AwardBest Classic Fiction of 1996 and Grammy Award Nominee for the Best Spoken Word of 1996.

Ernest Hemingway

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

Illustrations
Foreword
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (text)
Maps
Explanatory Notes
Glossary
Three Passages from the Manuscript
Manuscript Facsimiles
References
Note on the Text