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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Audiobook
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Huck Finn is an orphaned drifter who loves freedom more than respectability. He isn’t above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle with his conscience when he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim, who provides him with his first experiences of love, acceptance, and a sense of responsibility.
The title character of this famous novel tells his own story in a straightforward narrative laced with shrewd, sharp comments on human nature. The boy’s adventures along the Mississippi River provide a framework for a series of moral lessons, revelations of a corrupt society, and contrasts between innocence and hypocrisy. The colorful cast of characters—including the crafty grifters, the Duke and the King—help make this a memorable classic.
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"Wow! It had been so long since I read this book. Frankly, I was a child - and now about a million years later, I realize that this is definitely an adult book! The themes of freedom and doing what's right (even when it is against society norms) come through loud and strong. Mark Twain is also a master at humor in the written word. Really an enjoyable read and I won't wait another million years to read it again."
— Cherri (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Grover Gardner contributes a resonant announcer’s baritone, superb technique, musical expressiveness, and a fond, intelligent understanding. He is less a narrator here than a storyteller, one of the best this reviewer has heard…This is the one that best expresses the brilliance of Twain’s rendering of dialect and a rural boy’s sensibility. A judicious use of sound processing enhances his performance. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Huckleberry Finn…exists in more than thirty unabridged versions…Among the excellent versions [is]…Grover Gardner’s.”
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“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the only one of Mark Twain’s various books which can be called a masterpiece.”
— T. S. Eliot, poet, essayist, literary critic, and New York Times bestselling author -
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
— Ernest Hemingway, American journalist, short-story writer, and New York Times bestselling author -
“The perfect combination of plot and character.”
— Sting, English musician and actor -
“A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul.”
— Amazon.com -
“Nothing has ever laid me out like the moment in Huckleberry Finn where Huck says, ‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell.’ Pure heroism and friendship. It’s so rare to see that in real life that that sentence is, technically, science fiction.”
— Patton Oswalt, comedian, actor, and writer
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Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
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A Washington Post Best Audiobook selection
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Listener Reviews
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" I didn't enjoy it very much, but there's no doubt that it is a masterpiece. Twain weaves an abundance of hidden messages throughout its entirety and although it can be very dreary and boring at times, it is worth the read certainly to get a taste of old America. "
— Jordan, 1/18/2014 -
" I've read this book multiple times throughout my life and honestly this would have to the worst time I had read it. Reading childhood classics in high school just doesn't more at all. "
— Mariah, 1/14/2014 -
" The reason I became in love with reading, along with To Kill A Mockingbird. "
— Megan, 1/4/2014 -
" Great book. Hope they never take it out of required HS reading. "
— Matthew, 12/22/2013 -
" One of my favorites that I read in high school :) "
— Alina, 11/3/2013 -
" It was a good story. Had some difficulty reading though, as the narrator use spellings colloquially pertaining to the way one pronounces. eg: git= git. Almost entire book winds down along the river. The story continues from where The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer ends. Better read that before this one. "
— Thimira, 6/8/2013 -
" I read this book because I want to read "Finn", which is about "The Adventures of HF" but i have to say...I looove lilterature, but this book was kind of boring. lI dont know if it was because the audio book narrator but, it was just boring. "
— Aimee, 4/16/2013 -
" Mark Twain famously remarked that a class is "something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." Huckleberry Finn is a classic, but you really should want to read it. It's outstanding, even after all this time. "
— Brian, 3/23/2013 -
" This is - and I'm going to be controversial here, I know - an excellent book. I am embarrassed - and a little upset with my high school English teachers - that this is the first time I'm reading it. "
— Levi, 2/24/2013 -
" Great book. Annotated edition is excellent. "
— Emily, 8/7/2012 -
" A bully read. Worth reading for the descriptions of life at the time and great characters. The storyline itself was uneven. "
— Kathryn, 7/16/2012 -
" The great classic American novel. This book has so much for everyone. On top of it's literary value, it is absolutely hilarious! One of the few books I've ever read that make me laugh out loud every time I read it, and I've read it at least 5 times. "
— Chris, 5/5/2012 -
" I read this book when i was a teen and i really loved it, i found it very captivating. i will love to read it again. "
— Elliot, 4/21/2012 -
" I wanted to love this because it's Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn! But I didn't love it. It was okay, but not a favorite read for me. It didn't hold my interest and I found myself wishing I was further along than I was. "
— Kim, 3/13/2012 -
" fantastic boys adventure set in the wild's of Mississippi. It's problem is the use of the N-word you have to remember that It was written in the early 20th century. Which does not excuses its use but trying to put into context. "
— Arsenio, 1/1/2012 -
" One word to describe this in my mind: BORING! "
— Ashton, 9/29/2011 -
" A thousand times better than Tom Sawyer (the character, that is). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn provides a mature look at race relations through the eyes of a young boy. This work is nothing short of great. "
— Emma, 5/22/2011 -
" I thought it was good but not great. "
— Steven, 5/22/2011 -
" Maybe my expectations were too high. "
— Judi, 5/21/2011 -
" this was the best book I ever read. I want to read it again and again and again. "
— Colin, 5/19/2011 -
" I Love Huck Finn because I love Mark Twain. Persons attempting to find pedo/homo erotic undertones in that will be shot. "
— Markus, 5/19/2011 -
" Dissected this one for English class. Sometimes, discussion takes all the charm out of a book. So do angry yet subtle attacks at Romanticism. "
— Eva, 5/17/2011 -
" Not quite as entertaining as Tom Sawyer "
— Sam, 5/16/2011 -
" Read this one back in the 6th grade for an English assignment & still remember most of it to this day :) "
— Michelle, 5/15/2011 -
" One of the greatest American novels. "
— Raffles, 5/14/2011 -
" I think this was the first real novel I ever read, and I decided I wanted to be a writer. I also decided I wanted to sail a raft down the Mississippi River! "
— Mike, 5/14/2011
About Mark Twain
Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens (1835–1910), was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He attended school briefly and then at age thirteen became a full-time apprentice to a local printer. When his older brother Orion established the Hannibal Journal, Samuel became a compositor for that paper and then, for a time, an itinerant printer. With a commission to write comic travel letters, he traveled down the Mississippi. Smitten with the riverboat life, he signed on as an apprentice to a steamboat pilot. After 1859, he became a licensed pilot, but two years later the Civil War put an end to the steam-boat traffic.
In 1861, he and his brother traveled to the Nevada Territory where Samuel became a writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and there, on February 3, 1863, he signed a humorous account with the pseudonym Mark Twain. The name was a river man’s term for water “two fathoms deep” and thus just barely safe for navigation.
In 1870 Twain married and moved with his wife to Hartford, Connecticut. He became a highly successful lecturer in the United States and England, and he continued to write.
About Grover Gardner
Julie McKay is a voice talent and audiobook narrator. She has a degree in music and a background in classical theater. As an actor, she has worked at Shakespeare festivals and regional theaters across the country as well as off-Broadway in New York.