{"product_id":"adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-barnes-noble-classics-series","title":"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes \u0026 Noble Classics Series)","description":"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars\n\nBiographies of the authors\n\nChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n\nFootnotes and endnotes\n\nSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n\nComments by other famous authors\n\nStudy questions to challenge the readers viewpoints and expectations\n\nBibliographies for further reading\n\nIndices \u0026amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n\nAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works. \"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the only one of Mark Twains various books which can be called a masterpiece. I do not suggest that it is his only book of permanent interest; but it is the only one in which his genius is completely realized, and the only one which creates its own category.\" T. S. Eliot\n\nHuckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypical American maverick.\n\nFleeing the respectable society that wants to \"sivilize\" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River. The two bind themselves to one another, becoming intimate friends and agreeing \"there warnt no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft dont. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.\"\n\nAs Huck learns about love, responsibility, and morality, the trip becomes a metaphoric voyage through his own soul, culminating in the glorious moment when he decides to \"go to hell\" rather than return Jim to slavery.\n\nMark Twain defined classic as \"a book which people praise and dont read\"; Huckleberry Finn is a happy exception to his own rule. Twains mastery of dialect, coupled with his famous wit, has made Adventures of Huckleberry Finn one of the most loved and distinctly American classics ever written.\nNominated for a Grammy for his work as co-producer of the five-CD box set The Jazz Singers (1998), Robert OMeally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of Literature at Columbia University and Director of Columbia Universitys Center for Jazz Studies. He is the principal writer of Seeing Jazz (1997), the catalogue for the Smithsonians exhibit on jazz and literature, and the co-editor of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (1996).\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 159308112X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.159308112X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Twain, Mark|OMeally, Robert G.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47507347308721,"sku":"RDV.159308112X.G","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/159308112X-0.jpg?v=1781893146","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-barnes-noble-classics-series","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}