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Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive withthe poetry and vigor of the American people, MarkTwain's story about a young boy and his journeydown the Mississippi was the first great novel tospeak in a truly American voice. Influencingsubsequent generations of writers -- from SherwoodAnderson to Twain's fellow Missourian,T.S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and WilliamFaulkner to J.D. Salinger --Huckleberry Finn, like the riverwhich flows through its pages, is one of the greatsources which nourished and still nourishes theliterature of America.
