... "forced- "in this book "to become a master novelist Kazin (1981). It was a full-scale novel told in the authentic voice of a semiliterate small-town American boy Burns (2001). The story encompassed all of the seemingly frustrations of the times. In this novel, Mark Twain not only invented American literature, but also reclaimed his existence as a morally concerned human being ... . The plot is a deceptively simple story about two runaways: Huck, a white boy fleeing civilization, and Jim, a black man running away from slavery. Together they drift down the Mississippi on ... a raft, encou...

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