Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Introduction by Newton Arvin

Is there anything you can say about Huck Finn that everybody doesn't already know?

Yes.

There's a big spot on the cover where somehow the paper got ripped off. Must have been something sticky there, and then ripped away. Maybe a price sticker. And now, the fluffy guts of the cardstock that makes up the cover has started collecting dirt. Not a bit nice. Probably should just throw this book away. After all, Huckleberry Finn is sort of ubiquitous.

Reading copy only. Some erstwhile student scrawled annotations throughout. No text has been effaced. Perhaps it will aid the reader's understanding to have definitions of litotes, symbol, oxymoron, etc. scribbled right there on the page.

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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Introduction by Newton Arvin
Collier Books
Huck Finn is a boy worth knowing. He smokes and he swears, and he steals when he's forced to. He has a peculiar brand of morals all his own. In a society where sober industry and respectability are the greatest virtues, Huck cheerfully abandons himself to laziness, freedom, and adventure. He is an aspect of ourselves; a symbol of carefree and blissfull idleness; an indomitable mixture of shrewdness and innocence, tenderness and callousness. Huck is always a Bad Boy, but never a brutal or a vicious one. He is the best and the worst part of every boy who ever lived.
"A sustained protest against so many aspects of life in the United States."
--Newton Arvin