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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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First published in 1884, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece of world literature. Narrated by Huck himself in his artless vernacular, it tells of his voyage down the Mississippi with a runaway slave named Jim. As the two journey downstream on a raft, Huck's vivid descriptions capture the sights, smells, sounds, and rhythms of life on the great river. As they encounter traveling actors, con men, lynch mobs, thieves, and Southern gentility, his shrewd comments reveal the dark side of human nature. By the end of the story, Huck has learned about the dignity and worth of human life-and Twain has exposed the moral blindness of the "respectable" slave-holding society in which he lives. Huckleberry Finn was Twain's greatest creation. Garrison Keillor approaches it with the respect and affection it deserves. "This is an abridgement of Mark Twain's book, keeping the parts I loved as a boy-Huck's story, the big river at night, the boasting of the raftsmen, the Duke and the Dauphin, the lynching, the feud-and lopping off the last third of the book, where Tom Sawyer comes in and makes a big production of freeing Jim. I had Huck free him instead. If you enjoy the reading, I am sure Mr. Twain will forgive me." -Garrison Keillor

180 pages, Audiobook

First published May 1,2003

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Format
180 pages, Audiobook
Published
May 1, 2003 by HighBridge Audio
ISBN
9781565118133
ASIN
1565118138
Language
English

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Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history.
In November 2017, Minnesota Public Radio cut all business ties with Keillor after an allegation of inappropriate behavior with a freelance writer for A Prairie Home Companion. On April 13, 2018, MPR and Keillor announced a settlement that allows archives of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac to be publicly available again, and soon thereafter, Keillor began publishing new episodes of The Writer's Almanac on his website. He also continues to tour a stage version of A Prairie Home Companion, although these shows are not broadcast by MPR or American Public Media.

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Potatobanana
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April 25,2025
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I really enjoy Garrison Keillor's narration, so I was delighted to pick up his version of this book, as (embarrassingly) I don't think I ever got around to reading it before. If I have, it was probably for some long-ago school assignment, and I'd long-ago forgotten it.

It was only later when I realized that Keillor didn't just narrate this, he re-wrote the ending. (He talked about it in the afterword of the book.)

This amused me more than anything, as I have no particular emotional attachment to the original, and I trust Keillor as a storyteller. This version worked for me.

What's more, as someone who once re-wrote a bunch of Emily Dickinson's poetry.... I really shouldn't throw stones.
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ZeroYoshikage58
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April 25,2025
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Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is the most jocular book I have ever read! I really enjoyed reading this novel and although it is meant for children audiences, the controversial issues presented by Twain in Huck moral predicament are still in being debated today. I would recommend this novel to audiences of all age because of the influence it has had on society since its debut in the 1870s. The adventure that Huck and Jim embark on up the Mississippi River is as convoluted as Huck and his growing predicament of freeing Jim or complying with society by returning Jim to his owners. This controversy is hardly a controversy in today's society, where slavery is intolerable and the use of word "nigger" is lamented, but when Twain wrote Huck Finn, the status quo was white superiority and black inferiority. This satirical perspective on societal flaws is what makes "The Adventures of Huck Finn truly the first modern American novel" (Hemingway).
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magicb
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April 25,2025
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Listened to the audio by Elijah Wood actually. By the end, he was a proper American speaker!
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-ODA-
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April 25,2025
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This book is about a kid that lives in the 1700’s and his mom just dies and he gets 6000$. So his father tries to kidnap him and he gets loose and runs away. So he come along a slave plantation and stays there for a night and really likes it there. So he ask if he can live there and the owner says yes but then he meets Jim. Huck and Jim run away from the plantation to get out of the south.
Spoilers:!! I loved the book it was wrote very well and the storyline is very easy to follow. My favorite part was when they are sailing down the river in the night and they come across people looking for Jim. Huck saves Jim by letting him off and going over to the men and tell him to go the wrong way.
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xcider22
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April 25,2025
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I probably would have given this four stars had I not had to annotate and read it as an assignment. This book is effective on so many levels, the first being that it is just a great adventure, and that Huck Finn has to be one of the most loveable characters. He is irreverent, empathetic, and adventurous which is how I like my protagonists (many of which I'm sure were inspired by Huck). The other levels it works on are more satirical and aimed towards social critique. It is not only a hilarious satire of many things including family feuds in the south, and the mob mentality, it is also a really historically important book that argued effectively for something far beyond it's time. This is a book I can actually approve of being taught in schools.
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miniii_
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April 25,2025
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This book is better to be savored in a high school classroom with a passionate teacher at the helm. I have so many fond memories of sitting in tenth grade English reading and discussing Huck Finn that listening to it on my own just wasn't the same. While the audiobook narrator did a commendable job on this classic work or literature, I think it's best left to reading, preferably in a classroom setting. This is just a book that needs, cries out to be studied and discussed (despite Mark Twain's warning at the beginning of the novel).
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Weebookey
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April 25,2025
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Loved the book. Amazing adventure. Although meeting Sawyer was very bollywood movie kind of situation, the book is lovable.
Wish there was no N word in it....
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