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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
Pub. Date
c1981
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Illustrated with period engravings and photographs, this Victorian-era guide to Colorado promised to be "a complete Encyclopedia of the State: resources and condensed authentic descriptions of every city, town, station, post office and important mining camp in the state; soda, sulphur, hot and medicinal springs; summer, health and pleasure resorts; the mining, stock raising and farming interests; where to hunt, fish, and view the most magnificent...