Huck Finn
Hemingway had strong words for this novel, saying, "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." And yet it was banned just one month after its publication, and the American Library Association says it continues to be one of the most challenged books in U. S. schools because of its charged use of the "n" word to engage slavery.
More info →The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The excellent Nick Offerman narration is currently available as a Whispersync deal. "Buy" the linked kindle edition here—for FREE—and add the narration for just $0.99.
More info →A Vintage Christmas: A Collection of Classic Stories and Poems
From the publisher: This Christmas collection features old-fashioned works from classic authors who invite you to a feast of holiday nostalgia. A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Ralph Henry Barbour, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, L. M. Montgomery, and William Dean Howells, as well as poems from Eliza Cook, Christina Rossetti, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joyce Kilmer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge."
More info →Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii
Before Mark Twain was Mark Twain, he traveled to Hawai’i on assignment and wrote letters in his trademark style, remarking on the “jolly time” Live vicariously through his one-week-turned-five in the Rainbow State before it was a state.
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