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. Influencing subsequent generations of writers -- from
Sherwood Anderson to Twain's fellow Missourian T.S. Eliot from Ernest Hemingway and William
Faulkner to J.D. 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.
