Huck Finn's America : Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece (Hardcover)

from meandmybooks

I found this fascinating. According to Levy, my recent disappointment with the ending of Huckleberry Finn, in which Huck allows Jim to remain imprisoned for weeks and contributes to his misery by putting snakes, rats, spiders in his cell and making him write messages in his own blood when Huck co...

from JudithDCollins

A special thank you to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Andrew Levy's Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece delivers an exploration of the character with a fresh new contemporary look of the American literary Classic Mar...

from dickmanikowski

Interesting overview of the writing of one of the classic American novels. After having created the Huckleberry Finn character (which was based on a friend from Twain's childhood) as a foil in THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, the author began a novel about him after the Tom Sawyer novel was publishe...