pb65279Introduction by George Saundersbbr bCommentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marxb p 65279All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called iHuckleberry Finni, Ernest Hemingway wrote. It's the best book we've had. A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start it was banished from the Concord library shelves in 1885, it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat and betrayal by rogues. As Norman Mailer has said, The mark of how good iHuckleberry Finni has to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page.p