Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Harold Bloom

Appreciated by scholars and schoolchildren alike, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece of American humor. Take a critical look at this timeless classic. The title, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Mark Twain, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

143 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1884

About the author

Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.

Reviews

[David Withun · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Maggie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'd forgotten how clever and complicated this book is. The middle section with the King and the Duke felt overlong and annoying, but without that plot device I don't know how Twain would have gotten Jim and Huck to Aunt Sally's where Tom does his very best to totally misunderstand and copy literature. Besides, the King and the Duke show us the very best of Huck. Highly recommended.

[Cheree Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't remember reading this book when I was young, though I did recall parts of the story. It really is quite the adventure as Huck Finn finds himself in a multitude of scrapes – all of which he manages to find a way out of. I was entertained through the entire book.