Publisher : Warner Adult
Publication Date : 1994 08 01
>> Huck Everlasting
This book has awesome illustrations that help make one of America s favorite novels about an adventurous boy come to life for young readers
After Huck s troubles with adults he ends up taking a long adventure rafting thru the Mississippi river along with his friend Jim They encounter many adventures and in the process of reading these adventures we are given excellent insight on American culture during the 1800s The choppy English can make the book a little difficult for children but ultimately helps to better immerse you into Twain s tale
Mark Twain s original bad boy Tom Sawyer makes brief appearances in this book which helps establish an ongoing continuity As well as with this book I also highly recommend The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ADV OF TOM SAWYER
Darien Summers author of The Mischievous Hare a children s book The Mischievous Hare
>> Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn is one of those classic books that you just can t put down It is a very good book that is suspenseful and really draws you in It starts off with Huck imprisoned in civilization surrounded with good manners and sophistication Daily he goofs off with his pals Tom Sawyer and others imagining up scenarios where there is plenty of action and fun to be had When his father returns Huck has to stay with him but soon escapes faking his own death and running away to a local island to live on his own There he meets Jim Miss Watson s slave who he thought was going to sell him so he ran off Soon after Huck and Jim start traveling down the river as many men were out looking for Jim They travel only on nights surviving on fish that they catch and other vegetables that they manage to scavenge Unfortunatly they run into two men duke and king as they are known who both claim to be royalty They end up being a nuisance as they demand everything be done for them Soon afterward they arrive at a small town where a respected man has just died Everything in his will is pledged to his two brothers who have not arrived Duke and King pose as the real brothers as they are hoping to rob the family of their money When the real brothers arrive Huck and Jim try to evade the con men but as they make their escape they are caught by Duke and King They travel futher down the river and stop at yet another town to resupply and hopfully make some money When Huck Duke and King return to the raft they find Jim missing apparently captured as a runaway slave Huck goes off to try to recapture Jim and he poses as Tom Sawyer when he stays at Tom s Aunt Polly s house Coincidentally Tom arrives and joins the cause to save Jim Tom as he has to throw some finesse into the escape plan makes it much longer than it intended to be even thought it would have been quite easy to escape in the first place after weeks The boys and Jim make their escape but a few days after Jim is captured in a town a few miles below the escape point As Jim faces death Tom steps in and says that Jim was already free and that Miss Watson had freed him in her will as she had died a week or so earlier With Jim free Tom returns to his original town and Huck get adopted to be civilized by Tom s Aunt Polly
>> The greatest American novel
I don t need to tell you what this book is about everyone is familiar with it I started reading it for the first time at age 25 fully expecting it to be the greatest novel I ve ever read I was not disappointed I ve never laughed so much with one book The dialects the events the people they re all so priceless A masterpiece
