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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom and Huck Series (Book 2)
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Narrator
- Tom Parker
- Publisher
- Craig Black
- Publish Date
- 1 January 2007
- Run Time
- 9 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Adventure fiction
What to expect
Huck Finn is an orphaned drifter who loves freedom more than respectability. He isn’t above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle with his conscience when he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim, who provides him with his first experiences of love, acceptance, and a sense of responsibility.
The title character of this famous novel tells his own story in a straightforward narrative laced with shrewd, sharp comments on human nature. The boy’s adventures along the Mississippi River provide a framework for a series of moral lessons, revelations of a corrupt society, and contrasts between innocence and hypocrisy. The colorful cast of characters—including the crafty grifters, the Duke and the King—help make this a memorable classic.
Critics Review
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“Grover Gardner contributes a resonant announcer’s baritone, superb technique, musical expressiveness, and a fond, intelligent understanding. He is less a narrator here than a storyteller, one of the best this reviewer has heard…This is the one that best expresses the brilliance of Twain’s rendering of dialect and a rural boy’s sensibility. A judicious use of sound processing enhances his performance. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
AudioFile
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“Huckleberry Finn…exists in more than thirty unabridged versions…Among the excellent versions [is]…Grover Gardner’s.”
Washington Post (audio review)
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“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the only one of Mark Twain’s various books which can be called a masterpiece.”
T. S. Eliot, poet, essayist, literary critic, and New York Times bestselling author
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“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
Ernest Hemingway, American journalist, short-story writer, and New York Times bestselling author
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“The perfect combination of plot and character.”
Sting, English musician and actor
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“A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul.”
Amazon.com
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“Nothing has ever laid me out like the moment in Huckleberry Finn where Huck says, ‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell.’ Pure heroism and friendship. It’s so rare to see that in real life that that sentence is, technically, science fiction.”
Patton Oswalt, comedian, actor, and writer
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Details
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Narrator
- Tom Parker
- Duration
- 9 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 2007
- ISBN
- 9781483088082
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Craig Black
- Genre
- Adventure fiction
Synopsis
Huck Finn is an orphaned drifter who loves freedom more than respectability. He isn’t above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle with his conscience when he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim, who provides him with his first experiences of love, acceptance, and a sense of responsibility.The title character of this famous novel tells his own story in a straightforward narrative laced with shrewd, sharp comments on human nature. The boy’s adventures along the Mississippi River provide a framework for a series of moral lessons, revelations of a corrupt society, and contrasts between innocence and hypocrisy. The colorful cast of characters—including the crafty grifters, the Duke and the King—help make this a memorable classic.
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