Question: Huckleberry Finn - Where Can I Find Reviews of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Where can you find reviews of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: Huckleberry Finn - Past and Present
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, have been both popular and controversial. Here are a few excerpts from reviews:
- Athenaeum
"We shall content ourselves with repeating that the book is Mark Twain at his best, and remarking that Jim and Huckleberry are real creations, and the worthy peers of the illustrious Tom Sawyer." - The Hartford Courant
"In his latest story, 'Huckleberry Finn' (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), by Mark Twain, Mr. Clemens has made a very distinct literary advance over Tom Sawyer, as an interpreter of human nature and a contributor to our stock of original pictures of American life. Still adhering to his plan of narrating the adventures of boys, with a primeval and Robin Hood freshness, he has broadened his canvas and given us a picture of a people, of a geographical region, of a life that is new in the world. The scene of his romance is the Mississippi river." - Boston Evening Traveller
"Mr. Clemens has contributed some humorous literature that is excellent and will hold its place, but his 'Huckleberry Finn' appears to be singularly flat, stale and unprofitable." - San Francisco Daily Examiner
"It is apparently, as the art critics say, a pot-boiler in its baldest form. As a picture of life in the Southwest, however, there is little to be said in the book's favor, though there are several passages which are drawn with much ability, with occasionally a touch of a sort of grotesque pathos which greatly interests the reader." - The San Francisco Chronicle
"Mark Twain may be called the Edison of our literature. There is no limit to his inventive genius, and the best proof of its range and originality is found in this book, in which the reader's interest is so strongly enlisted in the fortunes of two boys and a runaway negro that he follows their adventures with keen curiosity, although his common sense tells him that the incidents are as absurd and fantastic in many was as the 'Arabian Nights.' Here is where the genius and the human nature of the author come in. Nothing else can explain such a tour de force as this, in which the most unlikely materials are transmuted into a work of literary art."
