{"product_id":"adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-9780375757372","title":"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction by George Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCommentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e,\" Ernest Hemingway wrote. \"It's the best book we've had.\" A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the Concord library shelves in 1885), it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat and betrayal by rogues. As Norman Mailer has said, \"The mark of how good \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e has to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e, who was chosen in 1999 by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the twenty best American fiction writers age forty and under, is the award-winning author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eCivilWarLand in Bad Decline\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Very Persistent Gappers of Frip\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565775524114,"sku":"9780375757372","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a56d3a7-6f1f-4b58-8ce9-f39394a8fb32.jpg?v=1774962445","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-9780375757372","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}