FROM THE COVER:
Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers--from Sherwood Anderson to Twain's fellow Missourian T. S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to J. D. Salinger--Huckleberry Finn, like the river that flows through its pages, is one of the great sources that nourished and still nourishes the literature of America.

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