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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Written by Mark Twain

    Narrated by Garrick Hagon

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    Floating down the Mississippi on their raft, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, find life filled with excitement and the spirit of adventure. Join Huck and Jim and their old friend Tom Sawyer as they come up against low-down thieves and murderers, whilst being chased by Huck’s evil, drunken father who is after Huck’s treasure. It is a trip that you will never tire of. In this new unabridged recording, Garrick Hagon brings his remarkable powers of vocal characterisation to the unforgettable portraits created by Twain.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateOct 1, 2005
    ISBN9789629545741
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    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.

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    • 5/5
      Huck Finn is about Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim. Huck Finn likes to lie, and so does Tom Saywer. Huckleberry Finn likes to lie because he needs to help himself, and Tom Sawyer likes to lie with drama. Huck Finn in one part dressed up as a girl, and there were lots of exciting parts. My favorite part was when Huckleberry Finn and his dad, Pap, were in his cabin across the Mississippi River, and they were up to a lot. And I have another favorite part, when Jim and Huckleberry found Paps cabin and Pap was dead. There was a King and a Duke, who were frauds, and we don't actually know if they were a King and a Duke because they were frauds. What I liked about the book: My Dad read this book before me. I like the word Huckleberry because I like the ice cream. It's a long book. The way my Dad read it to me was funny - the language, especially Jim's. What I didn't like about the book: I liked all of the parts.-by Naomi Fotenos on Feb 28, 2009 (age 6)
    • 5/5
      I read "Huckleberry Finn" in high school. In the intervening years, whenever I would hear that this book was being challenged or censored or banned from school districts, I would inevitably scoff. How could people be so closed-minded, I would think to myself, as to overlook the redeeming values of this text, one that has proven so accessible to students over the last century as a portrait of the evils of slavery, just because of the offensive nature of one historically-accurate word used within it.I've doubled in age since I first picked up the book, and just finished reading it again. And here's what I didn't remember: This book is harsh. Huck Finn isn't an abolitionist, just an opportunist who won't feel too bad if he accidentally gets taken for one. While he struggles to reconcile Jim's kindnesses towards him with everything he has been taught about slaves as property, and ultimately helps Jim to escape, he doesn't exactly do it for all the right reasons. And while the book is a satire of the time and place about which it was written, it is still the story of a black man filtered through a white person's perspective. Over and over, Huck has adventures while Jim is hiding in the swamp, or in costume in a wigwam, or locked up in a shed. If you were to tell the story from Jim's perspective, it would involve a lot of hiding and waiting. Our collective memory as a society is somewhat inaccurate; this is not the story of how Huck helps free Jim, but of how Jim helps free the mind and morality of Huck. Seeing the book now, I would question whether high schoolers have the necessary life experience and mentality to get this perspective out of the narrative. But for older readers, the book is worth a second look.The Barnes and Noble edition contains an introduction and notes by Robert G. O'Meally. The first half of the introduction offers insightful critical perspectives, but the second half veers too specifically into O'Meally's own personal academic interests, casting the novel as a precursor to the Blues tradition. The notes, also, can be irritating to educated readers, as they clearly presuppose younger readers with a less developed vocabulary and critical eye. While the edition is still an excellent buy with its attractive binding and affordable price, you might want to ignore the annotations unless you are one of the teenagers in the intended audience for them.
    • 4/5
      Not near as good a book as Tom Sawyer - but it was still good to revisit this book after all these years ...
    • 2/5
      I got the feeling that I was missing a lot reading this book in English, like it had a lot more going on in Russian that didn't translate well.
    • 3/5
      Re-reading since high school. Good classic!
    • 3/5
      Check. That's how I feel about this book -- I've read it now, so can cross it off the list.Not sure why I found this one hard going compared to Tom Sawyer. I had expected them to be about the same in terms of difficulty, but Huck Finn has so many plot twists -- might I even dare suggest it sags in the middle? Were huge coincidences more accepted in fiction back in the day, or were huge coincidences actually more likely in a smaller population? I'm talking about the coincidence of Huck meeting up with Jim, and the even bigger coincidence later of Huck turning up at Tom Sawyer's auntie and uncle's house. Then there's the coincidence of meeting up with a whole string of baddies. Were there really that many bad people around to be met?I don't know. All of this is background noise, to a story written by a man with progressive politics. Now I really don't understand all that fuss about the frequent use of 'nigger'. Better instead to turn our aggravation towards stories such as Dead Wood, in which the language is all wrong for the time period. Nothing wrong with 'fuck', but no one talked like that back then, so why insert it? If the word 'nigger' was the word for Huck Finn's time period, then we are obliged to use it. If I never read this as a kid I can see why, despite its always adorning our bookshelves -- the phonetically reproduced dialogue is quite tough to understand for a child of the antipodes. Then there's the different word usage. Not sure I would've known enough about American history or what 'vittles' meant. Honestly, I loved Little House On The Prairie but at no stage did I have an education on how white people entered the American West. Likewise, nothing was ever said at school about American slavery. So I guess it's no wonder I only just got around to reading books like this.
    • 5/5
      matters appear hysterical on goodreads these days. Ripples of concern often appear daunting to the literate, cushioned by their e-devices and their caffienated trips to dusty book stores; why, the first appearence of crossed words often sounds like the goddamn apocalypse. Well, it can anyway. I find people are taking all of this way too seriously.

      I had a rough day at work. It is again hot as hell outside and I just wanted to come home and listen to chamber music and read Gaddis until my wife comes home. Seldom are matters that simple. It is within these instances of discord that I think about Pnin. I love him and the maestro's creation depicting such. I situate the novel along with Mary and The Gift in my personal sweet cell of Nabokov, insulated well away from Lolita and Ada, perhaps drawing strength from Vladimir's book on Gogol, though certainly not his letters with Bunny Wilson. It is rare that I can think about Pnin washing dishes and not tear up. I suppose I'll survive this day as well.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book a lot. The experience of encapsulating every chapter into a poem was a fun but challenging experience. Twain had a lot more than just a kids book in mind when he wrote this book. He was writing to all people who were caught up in the political question of the time: "Should one leave slavery alone, or do something about this issue?"

      I however, did grow tired of Tom and felt like grabbing him by the lapels and screaming, "Grow up Kid!" But it was merely a book, and Tom Sawyers merely a fictional character, so I restrained myself.

      This book is an astute answer to the political cross hairs of the nineteenth century.
    • 2/5
      Hernieuwde kennismaking met Tom Sawyer. Monoloog in de ik-persoon, gebrekkige syntaxis, monotone ondertoonTom sleept HF mee naar een bende rovers en moordenaars, maar het is allemaal maar spel. Het kon me echt niet boeien
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. It is exactly what I look for in a book, a great adventure and story. It moves at a good pace and doesn't get caught up in detail of a rock or the weather. The language and writing can be difficult at times to sit through but you get used to it and soon you don't even think about it. A great read
    • 5/5
      After a few months vivisecting Huck Finn using various types of literary theory in my tenth grade English class, I don't think there is much I can add. But I can say I read it when I was ten, and it was a fun adventure; I read it when I was fifteen, and it was rich in symbolism; and reading it as an adult it is a relevant delight. It grows with us and with our society.A must-have.
    • 5/5
      I guess this is the summer of reading classic books. People already know the story from all of the various movies and Wishbone episodes. So I won't dwell on the plot too much. There's intrigue and secret pacts and rafts and steamboats and scams. Huck always seems to find the craziest events on the Mississippi.

      The best part of this is that it's written in various dialects. Huck's narrator voice is at least easy enough to understand, but lots of times I found myself reading things aloud to even figure out what some other character was saying. It really gives you a feel for the time period, more than any description would. I feel like I have a better understanding of the South now.

      I can see why people don't want this to be read in present-day schools, or prefer to read Tom Sawyer's adventures instead. Everyone says the n-word ALL THE TIME. I get it that it was the culture, that it is a historical piece, but it would make reading aloud in class quite difficult. This book has an undercurrent of racism and morality that is definitely more thought-providing my though.
    • 5/5
      "Huckleberry Finn" is set in Missouri in the 1830's and it is true to its time. The narrator is a 13 year old, semi-literate boy who refers to blacks by the N-word because he has never heard them called anything else. He's been brought up to see blacks as slaves, as property, as something less than human. He gets to know Jim on their flight to freedom (Jim escaping slavery and Huck escaping his drunken, abusive father), and is transformed. Huck realizes that Jim is just as human as he is, a loving father who misses his children, a warm, sensitive, generous, compassionate individual. Huck's epiphany arrives when he has to make a decision whether or not to rescue Jim when he is captured and held for return to slavery. In the culture he was born into, stealing a slave is the lowest of crimes and the perpetrator is condemned to eternal damnation.
    • 5/5
      This is one of those classic novels that I truly enjoyed despite having to read it for school. Huck Finn is a fun, light-hearted character who embarks a grand adventure. There is lots of action. Twain's use of dialect for the characters puts a reader into the time, though it does demand more carefulk reading to catch all the nuances. Overall, I recommend this to ALL readers. Just a a good book.
    • 5/5
      This was a book club selection. I had only read excerpts of this book in high school and college, so I am glad I had the opportunity to read the whole book. Twain's writing in the dialect of the day enhances the enjoyment of this book.
    • 5/5
      Took me a while to chew through this one... its longer than I remembered from high school! I'm glad I read it again, however, and am looking forward to the next title in my classics challenge!
    • 5/5
      Twain’s travel narrative is quite beautiful. The characterization of the river will strike anyone but especially those who grew up near water. It is also an excellent example of the social struggles present at the time.
    • 4/5
      The boy nobody wants finds courage and destiny. An adventure.
    • 5/5
      Mark Twain wears well, I think. I first read Huck Finn in college, which I think is the appropriate place for its introduction -- not grade school, as seems to be the norm. You need to be able to apply historical context to the story, to grasp Twain's sense of irony and satire, as well as his political motivations. You also need patience, as there is dialect and regionalisms in this book. It was a first in that regard. I recently acquired a copy for my library, and I started reading it again while my toddler played outside on a sunny afternoon. It wasn't long before I was swept away into Huck Finn's world. Twain has a gift for telling a good story while doing a lot more at the same time. His famous introduction cautions against finding a motive, moral or plot in this story, but how can you help it?
    • 5/5
      Wonderful voice for the Finn character. Excellent setting and world building. The racism is a little hard to take.
    • 2/5
      This book was fantastic in the beginning, with the adventures along the Mississippi, and the moral dilemmas between helping a slave gain his freedom (ironically deemed "immoral") vs turning him in. The second half of the book was honestly pretty bad though. The hijinx with the Duke and the King were pretty pointless. The plan with Tom and Huck to bust out Jim from captivity was downright stupid. I understand that was the intent, but it was cruel, and not enjoyable to read at all.
    • 3/5
      Book title and author: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) by Mark Twain. Published in America, 1885 reviewed 4-30-23Why I picked this book up: This was the second book in the The Banned Books Compendium: 32 Classic Forbidden Books that I won in the April 2023 LibraryThing early review.Thoughts: This novel is about a young boy, “Huck,” from a first-person narrative along the Mississippi River in the 1840’s told from the main character in this story, and it begins in his youthful imagination. He then goes through adventure, struggle, racial situations, and the forming of friendships. He dealt with many struggles faced with several situations, travels with an escaped slave. There are different characters, two con men, developed a friend, Jim, and others. This books uses the N-word many many times which has been outlawed in speech since I was a kid so I have never used it. In the United States various states banned this book particularly for the N-word use and also for the lack of language in general. In the review of the book “Many Twain scholars have argued that the book, by humanizing Jim and exposing the fallacies of the racist assumptions of slavery, is an attack on racism. Others have argued that the book falls short on this score, especially in its depiction of Jim.”From rinews website talking about why this book was banned. we read, “However, readers should be aware of two major points that Mark Twain was making. One source states it perfectly: “First, the novel is a satire; that is, irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit are used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity. Second, the novel is first person narrative (told from Huck’s point of view). Confusing either of these issues can lead the unsophisticated reader to drastic misinterpretations. The feelings and interpretations of situations, issues, and events advanced by Huck are not necessarily those the author is advocating.”Why I finished this read: IMO, this books started interestingly with the clear child imagination then it slowed then started to drag a little to dragging a lot. I continued, I forced myself actually and it thankfully picked up. This is why I finished. Stars rating: I do like parts, dislike others but because this novel dragged for a long portion, I wanted to rate it at a 1 or 2 stars but because the positives were good and the end finishes more positively I am rating it at 3 out I’d 5 stars.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic somewhat comical adventures of boy who goes off with an escaped slave on a raft. Pokes fun at mankind. This was my second reading of it.
    • 3/5
      Things I liked:

      The characters voice and train of thought frequently made me smile. The way his mind came up against big moral issues like slavery and murder and things like that were provocative, making me wonder about my own rational for strongly held beliefs.

      Things I thought could be improved:

      The section at the end when Tom Sawyer was doing all manner of ridiculous rituals as part of the attempt to free Jim I thought stretched credibility of Huck or Jim going along with him. Even with the reveal at the end that Jim was really free anyway I found it tiresome after a while. While I don't mind the idea of Tom trying to add some romance to the escape, I think it definitely could be have been edited down to about a third of what it was.

      Highlight: When Jim finds Huck again after being lost on the raft. Huck plays a trick on him to convince him it was all a dream. Jim falls for it but then catches on and shames Huck for playing with his emotions. That made both the character of Jim and Huck sing for me.
    • 3/5
      Might want to read it again sometime. Took me a while to get into it, but by the last third I was hooked.
    • 5/5
      Very funny, as well as very interesting.

      Hard to think of a better book with a teenage main character - Treasure Island, perhaps ?
    • 2/5
      Dissected this one for English class. Sometimes, discussion takes all the charm out of a book. So do angry yet subtle attacks at Romanticism.
    • 4/5
      The way the language is portrayed, the stylized dialogues, and the underlying condemnation of slavery makes this Twain classic one that everyone should read. In some ways, Twain reminds me of Charles Dickens...Some scenes, particularly towards the end with Tom seem to stretch on and on, long after the humor is gone. Still this novel is an immovable object in American Lit. You just have to read it.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful language, wonderful dialog, full of my childhood.
    • 5/5
      I love, love, love this book. The humor, the sincerity, the narrative voice. Exceptional. That being said, I struggled with that fifth star. Something about the word "nigger," no matter how eloquent and well-executed its context, leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. Intellectually, though, I can appreciate some of what Twain is doing, here. He doesn't patronize his reader by creating in Huck Finn an overly sympathetic character infused with the author's own socio-political pathos. Huck isn't the poster-child for abolitionist propaganda, but a still-burgeoning personality trying to define its own moral good. In fact, it is simply brilliant that Twain ironically reverses Huck's ethical conflict, depicting his reluctance to STEAL a slave from slavery because theft is a sin, and his ultimate decision to toss himself entirely into "wickedness." We love Huck precisely because he wants so badly to do the right thing, whatever that might be.

      The scene in which Jim laments his estranged wife and children is particularly moving, for Twain takes care to depict his humanity, though Huck himself is ambivalent about his friend's grief; that's very clever writing.

      Michiko Kakutani wrote a very interesting piece in the New York Times about some politically correct editions of the text; the word "nigger" has been replaced with something more palatable for contemporary readers, but with all due respect, completely unrealistic for the novel's characters. Kakutani explains that "'Huckleberry Finn' actually stands as a powerful indictment of slavery (with Nigger Jim its most noble character)" and that censoring the original removes the possibility "of using its contested language as an opportunity to explore the painful complexities of race relations in this country. To censor or redact books on school reading lists is a form of denial: shutting the door on harsh historical realities — whitewashing them or pretending they do not exist." I am a fierce opponent of censorship and could not agree more. Hence, that inexorable little fifth star.