The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author ofReading Lolita in TehranandThe Republic of Imagination

In recent years, neither the persistent effort toclean up the racial epithets in Mark TwainsAdventures of Huckleberry Finnnor its consistentuse in the classroom have diminished, highlightingthe novels wide-ranging influence andits continued importance in American society.An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignetteof a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in Americanhistory, defining the experience of a nation invoices often satirical, but always authentic.

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