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{{Image|Finn kemble.jpg|right|300px|Huckleberry Finn, as drawn by E.W. Kemble, from the 1884 first edition.}} | |||
'''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''' (1885) is widely regarded as [[Mark Twain|Mark Twain's]] masterpiece and one of the great American [[novel|novels]] of all time. [[Ernest Hemingway]] famously said that: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ''Huckleberry Finn''." To which [[Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.]] added: "This is at least vaguely true, I suppose, of many modern books written by American men."<ref>Both quotes are from ''The Unabridged Mark Twain, Opening Remarks by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr'', edited by Lawrence Teacher, Running Press, Philadelphia, 1976, p. xiii</ref> | '''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''' (1885) is widely regarded as [[Mark Twain|Mark Twain's]] masterpiece and one of the great American [[novel|novels]] of all time. [[Ernest Hemingway]] famously said that: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ''Huckleberry Finn''." To which [[Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.]] added: "This is at least vaguely true, I suppose, of many modern books written by American men."<ref>Both quotes are from ''The Unabridged Mark Twain, Opening Remarks by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr'', edited by Lawrence Teacher, Running Press, Philadelphia, 1976, p. xiii</ref> | ||
Revision as of 03:00, 8 June 2009
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) is widely regarded as Mark Twain's masterpiece and one of the great American novels of all time. Ernest Hemingway famously said that: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." To which Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. added: "This is at least vaguely true, I suppose, of many modern books written by American men."[1]
References
- ↑ Both quotes are from The Unabridged Mark Twain, Opening Remarks by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, edited by Lawrence Teacher, Running Press, Philadelphia, 1976, p. xiii