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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author:
Mark Twain
Read by:
Mark F. Smith
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Ratings
Book
277
Narrator
86
Release Date
June 12, 2007
Duration
11 hours 36 minutes
Summary
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. Huck escapes his civilized life when he arranges his own "murder" and turns back into the backwoods, downriver yokel he started as, and in the process springing a slave, Jim, from bondage.

Huck and Jim experience life as a series of tableaus as the river sweeps them through small towns on their way South. At each stop, Huck engages his talent for mixing fact with bald-faced lies to endlessly get himself out of situations... and of course, putting him into others!

Much has been written about the statement Twain is making about slavery in this book, but it's really secondary to the story. The facts of how black people were treated in this period give Huck and Jim their license for life on the run. Modern listeners will be intrigued by the unencumbered life of the pair; they make do with coffee, fish from the river, and little else (but of course, when they do need something extra, they don't mind helping themselves to it without recourse to money!)

Huck and Jim have run-ins with desperados and family feuds and even manage to get run down by a steamboat. The adventures ratchet up when they are joined on the raft by a self-proclaimed "duke" and a "king" - shysters both, who spend their time in figuring how to fleece the public in the little river towns. And when Jim is captured and threatened with being sent back into slavery, Huck enlists his old buddy Tom Sawyer in a frenzied, desperate, and terribly funny rescue.

I had to clip a lot of laughing from this recording at Twain's sly, catch-'em-when-they're-not-looking humor, but you can feel free to enjoy some good belly laughs at this crew of lovable rapscallions!
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Profile Avatar Carolyn M. Apr 2019

too...mon-a-tone ...but a classic all the same...the reader put me to sleep every time....lost track of place & story line, way too much.

Profile Avatar Heidi Von Graevenitz Oct 2016

Excellent story and excellently told. Mark Smith does a great job. And Mark Twain is a master. His comments on American society still hold. And I'll sure miss Huck Finn? What? No sequel?! Much obliged.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Jan 2020

It's The Adventures of Huck Finn for crying out loud! Of course it was fantastic! Haven't you already read it? Now it's great to be able to have someone read it to you!

Profile Avatar Earle J. Jun 2019

Outdated. I’m a white male, born in South Georgia in the 1940’s. Didn’t make it through the first chapter. The use of the N word is repulsive.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Nov 2019

This was a great story, I am going to read / listen to all the old classics stories and this was on my list, I really enjoyed it. It was a window into old America, great story and as a boy I would have also thought a wee bit like Huck and Tom.

Profile Avatar Mona Kita Aug 2016

Mark F Smith always does a terrific job but goes above and beyond with his accents and spirited reading of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" there is so much social and political truth in Mark Twain's writing. Loved listening to this refresher course in American values and truths.

Profile Avatar Wendy N. May 2025

super cool

Profile Avatar Anonymous Oct 2024

Excellent narrator, great book.

Profile Avatar BRADLEY O. Nov 2023

Good story.

Profile Avatar Tim S. Mar 2023

Keep in the the time period in which it was written. The humor and dialog seems silly at times but it was of course well written and thought out. The narrator did a great job but he mispronounced some words as they are used in speech, instead he pronounced them by how they were spelled.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Sep 2022

this is a very great book an excellent all around classic Mark Smith really does a great job in narrating this book.

Profile Avatar Katharina K. Jun 2022

most fabulous narrator ever!!! the story us as good as it has always been...even though I prefer the "adventures of tom sawyer"

Profile Avatar Anonymous May 2022

Read this when I was younger but had forgotten quite abit of the story enjoyed it

Profile Avatar Mark Carpenter Jan 2022

one of my favorite books packed with action and never a dull moment with huck.

Profile Avatar Scrappy Oct 2021

Great read.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Mar 2021

I loved Marks Smith's voice which took me straight into that world. Twain makes Huck a truly moral young being who considers himself wicked beyond redemption but does the right thing even when believing it to be th wrong thing by the mores of the time. I read this so many decades ago, I had only the vaguest memories and was delighted by the drive and engagement, the unfolding plot, with all its side episodes and casual social commentary. Twain makes the case against slavery with light handed humour and pathos. I loved it. Not being American, this is a very different 19 th century read, but for me it is right up there with Trollope and Dickens for beautifully drawn social satire.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Jan 2021

Excellent!!

Profile Avatar Anonymous Sep 2020

Great book with a great narrator

Profile Avatar Anonymous Aug 2020

This is certainly a fabulous story and the narrator is well suited to make one really enjoy listening to it.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Jun 2020

I think this is great.

Profile Avatar Jeff S. Mar 2019

Great classic. It was a bit bothersome to have each chapter preceded by credits on the recording. I don't recall other audio books doing that.

Profile Avatar Tammy W Dec 2017

Great read

Profile Avatar L Williams Dec 2017

An excellent narration of one of the best books ever written

Profile Avatar chalrene smith Aug 2015

amazing book. super narrator. I enjoyed the book and the clear narration. book was good.

Profile Avatar Manasi Kashyap Jun 2014

The narrator clinched this already beautiful book. Worth listening to over and over again!

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author: Mark Twain
Read by: Mark F. Smith
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