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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ¬With Bonus E-Book| [Audio]
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Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire. Twain's writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression. William Dufris has been nominated nine times as a finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Award and has garnered twenty-one Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which also named him one of the Best Voices at the End of the Century. He has also acted on stage and television in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

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"Although he does an expert job with the entire cast, [narrator William] Dufris's delivery of Jim's dialogue is his crowning achievement...Jim's mind and heart come shining through." ---Publishers Weekly Audio Review

Gr 7 Up-Actor Thomas Becker has narrated many of Twain's stories previously for Commuters Library. His reading here is smooth, and his voice is clear and energetic. Southern accents are easy to understand, and the dialect complete with poor grammar flows naturally. Although he does not give a distinct voice to each character, there are many changes of speech to reflect the different age, sex, and race of the speakers. For the women's voices, he tends to use a falsetto. Becker is a master at knowing when to emphasize words and how to show emotion with his voice. He also understands when to cut back so that Twain's subtle humor can come through on its own. This required standard of American literature is brought to life for students. A wonderful selection for school libraries.-Claudia Moore. W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

In this centenary year of the first American edition of Huckleberry Finn, Neider, who has worked long and well in the thickets of Twain scholarship (this is the ninth Twain volume he has edited), offers a most fitting tribute, for which he will be thanked in some quarters, damned in others. Neider's contribution is twofold: he has restored to its rightful place the great rafting chapter, which the author had lifted from the manuscript-in-progress and dropped into Life on the Mississippi, and he has abridged some of the childish larkiness in the portions in which Huck's friend Tom Sawyer intrudes into this novel. For decades, critics have lamented the absence of the ``missing'' chapter and deplored the jarring presence of Tom in episodes that slow the narrative, but not until now has anyone had the temerity to set matters right. In paring back the ``Tom'' chapters (which he fully documents in his lengthy, spirited introduction, with literal line counts of the excised material), Neider has achieved a brisker read. Though there may be some brickbats thrown at him for this ``sacrilege,'' few should object to the belated appearance of the transplanted rafting chapter in the novel in which it clearly belongs. October 25

"Although he does an expert job with the entire cast, [narrator William] Dufris's delivery of Jim's dialogue is his crowning achievement...Jim's mind and heart come shining through." ---Publishers Weekly Audio Review

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