Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Huckleberry Finn, as drawn by E.W. Kemble, from the 1884 first edition.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is widely regarded as Mark Twain’s masterpiece. Ernest Hemingway famously said that: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.' " To which Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. added: "This is at least vaguely true, I suppose, of many modern books written by American men."[1]

References

  1. Both quotes are from The Unabridged Mark Twain, Opening Remarks by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, edited by Lawrence Teacher, Running Press, Philadelphia, 1976, page xiii

Fresh start

The rest of this page has been blanked, as per consensus on its Talk page. I'm leaving the image so that it won't be orphaned. Let's have a fresh start. Russell Potter 19:18, 10 June 2007 (CDT)