ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, THE - Bantam

Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor for 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 it pages, is one of the great sources that nourished and still nourish the literature of America.