It has been said that reading Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul.

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn… It's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”

—Ernest Hemingway

Literary critic H. L. Mencken called Huckleberry Finn “one of the great masterpieces of the world…the full equal of Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe.”

Huckleberry Finn has stood the test of time.

The companion piece to his classic Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is a groundbreaking work of American Literature that still commands deep praise (and still elicits controversy due to its overtly racial content).